Toxic Relationship Patterns that Kill Love

In a recent blog post I introduced the five stage of marital satisfaction: enchantment, disillusionment, obligation, friendship and mature love. In this post I want to talk about four toxic relationship patterns that prevent you from moving forward from disillusionment or obligation to friendship and love.

These four patterns come from marriage research at the University of Denver. In one study, the researchers followed 150 couples for 13 years, before marriage and after, gathering massive amou...