Only if you allow it to.

If you don't change your thought patterns in life, you'll keep attracting the same kind of people.

I think I have finally made a breakthrough. It required taking some serious time off from dating or becoming involved with someone. Time to really think about what I needed and not just what I wanted in a relationship. I had to accept that anyone I wanted to change could not be a potential mate. You have to be able to live with grace and joy with everything about that person just the way they are.

Heck no I left the first simply because she was a cheating tramp. The second one I lkeft because she was mentally unstable. always accusing me of doing stuff I never did.

It does if the person left because his partner could no longer deal with his/hers addictions. I am just out of a 4 yr. relationship & was engaged to be married. My ex- fiance is a full-fledged alcoholic with no desire to stop. This caused endless arguments & verbal abuse till he wore me down & killed my self-esteem. Other than that we had a loving, affectionate relationship but, that was not enough to hold the relationship together. He started staying away so that he could continue to drink on a daily basis without any hassle from me which of course left me isolated and lonely. He finally walked out after a heated argument & has not been back. Told me he didn't want to be tied down anymore & we didn't have anything in common(false- what we didn't have in common was -he drank,I didn't). One month later he is involved with another person and she has no clue who I am or anything about our relationship other than he had been with someone prior to her. I wish her all the luck in the world because he can be quite the charmer & romantic in the beginning-I was blinded and had no clue either. So basically what I'm trying to say here is if you are getting into a relationship with a rebounder you better do your homework so you know what you are up against.

Depends. People usually attribute fault to the partner whenever a relationship goes sour. If, however, one notices the "same destructive pattern" in DIFFERENT relationships, it's a sure sign that YOU are the catalyst of the pattern, NOT the partner. So, yes, each new relationship WILL continue the same destructive pattern if you fail to recognize you're the one with the destructive pattern.

This hasn't been true in my life.