Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay in or Get Out of Your Relationship

So he left his job to become an inventor and, true to her word, Sandy left him. Did he do the right thing? Many of Sandy’s predictions came true. His new life was a struggle. Fame and fortune were not waiting just around the corner. After ten years he hadn’t made much money and had built up some debt. Eventually

You can’t negotiate if you’re afraid of being attacked. You have to feel safe putting your needs out there.

if you feel like strangling them because you have so little or because they’ve taken so much from you? Another reason you can’t listen is that

another couple it was their garden. Not just keeping it up the way most people with a house do, but building it into one of the noteworthy gardens in their state. For another

Another reason you would be afraid of losing is that your partner’s limited. She might simply have nothing to give. If she’s tired all the time, then you can’t have more sex and you can’t go out

living in the country and building their own house, growing their own food, and supporting themselves by the sweat of their brows, all in the context of being part of a close-knit community.

it’s something you do together in some way that not only gives you a sense of satisfaction but a sense of meaning, then for most people in your situation what you’ve got going for you means your relationship is too good to leave. Quick take: Sharing a passion makes it easier to share a life.

reason so many Hollywood couples break up, even though they’re sincerely in love when they come together, is that their focus on their separate careers, while not being bad in itself, means they don’t have any shared vision.

Hank put up an inner barrier that allowed him to not seem to experience the feelings his partner’s putdowns must have been stimulating in him. And because he couldn’t imagine that the person he wanted to love him would feel so little respect toward him, he was able to deny that the disrespect was happening at all. These are the four things that