How to drift apart from your partner in five quick years:
Stop communicating your thoughts and feelings to them.
Assume they know what you are going through.
Ignore the hard conversations.
Pull away and expect them to stay.
Stop making time for each other.
Believe the relationship doesn't need effort to function.
Let the romance die.
Have the mindset that peace equals love.
Hold them responsible for not knowing you anymore after you were the one disappearing on them.
Choose when you can and can't participate in the relationship.
Shut down instead of open up to them.
Chase a fantasy and not a real person.
Pressure them to change their behavior so they never upset you.
Fail to understand their perspective.
Build your life around the idea they’ll leave you in the future.
Refuse to talk to them when they need to talk to you.
Struggle to express yourself when you feel overwhelmed.
Expect them to always do the right thing.
Take their attempt to rebuild the relationship as a personal attack on you.
Take every complaint about your behavior personally.
Choose not to forgive them.
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