5 Ways Healthy Relationships Are Different From Toxic Ones

Many of my clients ask me how healthy relationships are different from toxic ones. Sometimes, when we are in a relationship, it can be very difficult to see how healthy it is. You are just too close, there are too many emotions involved and your friends and family all have different opinions.

Recognizing whether or not your relationship is a healthy one is the best tool for you to use when considering whether or not your relationship has a future.

There are some hallmarks of healthy relationships that don’t exist in toxic relationships. Let me share them with you today so that you can figure out, once and for all, how a healthy relationship is different from a toxic one and what kind of relationship you have.

#1 — No fear.

A healthy relationship is one where there is no fear, that neither partner lives life being scared of physical or emotional pain. A life where disagreements exist but they don’t lead to outbursts of emotion that make one, or both, people fearful.

Do you live in fear of asking your partner if you can go out with your girlfriends, knowing that if you do he will get furious, yelling at you, knocking things off tables and punching walls, because he thinks that you are fooling around and that your friends hate him.