When You Are Overly Critical Of Your Partner

A lot of us are guilty of this from time to time. But it’s important to be aware of when you’re doing it and potentially stop; otherwise, it can really mess up your relationship and make it hard for you to have a healthy one.

Your partner is not an extension of you.
It’s easy to think you and your partner are the same person. You feel the same because let’s face it. We only hear our internal world. It’s easy to think that we are the center of the universe when it couldn’t be further from the truth. People’s past experiences often shape their reality and all the things they’ve been taught. We would be baffled if we could see the world through another person’s perspective. How different it is. But often, when we criticize our partner, it’s because they didn’t fulfill our expectations. Or they didn’t do things the way we would have expected them to do it. There can be more than one correct way of doing things. Even if your partner ends up doing something a certain way that you don’t really like. Oftentimes, it’s better to fully accept it rather than trying to change the other person, and criticizing won’t get you what you want anyway. When was the last time you changed something about yourself when you…