Why are so many relationships failing?
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mizuiislife
ANSWERS: 37
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In my opinion, lack of self acceptance and poor communication. This coupled with no conflict resolution skills.
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The worlds eyes are going inward.
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I think relationships fail more than ever these days because of peoples judgemental minds. They see a pretty face and act on that, Instead of seeing the person how they truely are.
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A lack of effort. The relitive ease of divorce. Failure to commit.
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the lack of reponsiblity ... they don't take it seriously... they get afraid of commitment... and they don't understand what serious relationship means...
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Nowadays couples dont spend time together anymore like they use too. They like to go out on their own and then they begin to drift apart and dislike the people they married because they discover what they got into! Its not like the old days where they spent all of their time together other than work!
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My ex husbands' relationship and mine had failed because after time and time again I attempted to get him to try, talk, and even see a counselor together, it just wasn't meant to be. We are now friends, and now I'm a part of something real and amazing. I don't think it's fair to judge this question on EVERYONE, because every situation is different. My marriage failed because it became clear that we rushed into something too soon before BOTH of us were ready. Solo 9but with my daughter), I rock. Hard.
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Because too many people forget that a relationship is about giving as well as taking. They get selfish and want what they want and are not willing to compromise. Another big reason is because people put too much emphasis on the physical and not enough emphasis on loving someone for the person they are inside. We see a pretty face and a nice body and get into a relationship based solely on that forgetting that as time goes on that face or body if we only focus on the physical is not always going to be as nice as it was when we first laid eyes on them. When the changes occur and the person is not as pretty or their body isn't as hot as it once was people get tired of want someone new who is going to appeal to their eyes. The saddest part is that person is still the same person they were when you first met just their physical appearance has changed. I truly feel sorry for those who base their relationship completly on physical attraction only.
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They are not taken seriously. People who cheat before marriage are likely to cheat after marriage.
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People marry too early. They don't realize what they are REALLY getting into when they marry. That plus, it's very easy to divorce
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So many people date and make a commitment for the wrong reasons like money and looks. But all that fades with time along with the relationship.
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Answerbag?
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I don't think people try as hard as they use to. When the first thing goes wrong they know they can say bye! Used to be harder I guess, just to walk out. My parents stayed married no matter what went on..Now, out of all my daughters friends, her parents are the only ones not divorced. It isn't always easy, no commitment is ever great all the time. It's just too easy now to walk away. Just the thoughts of someone who is still commited everyday. Maybe I should be commited, oh I couldn't resist that:) lol!
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Forgiveness is apparently not part of the picture, even though forgiveness is essential to love. Then again, I could be wrong. I've been wrong before.
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Because people fall in love "with love" and it's good feelings rather than with trust and true lifelong friendship between themselves and their partners.
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Selfishness. It can take many forms. Two that I see over and over are: Not admiting that the problem with a relationship is YOU and not the relationship and taking steps to fix yourself. Not caring more about your commitment than you do about the temporary feel good of looking outside the relationship. This can be cheating or anything that takes what you should be giving the relationship and puts it elsewhere.
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There is this evil thing called "the breakup bug" and it leaves no survivors.
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People are married to the money now.
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marriage is the new dating, people throw the word love around too loosely, a lot of people just want to get married to say they did it once, we live in a society where everything is quick and instant and everything changes quickly and relationships tend to stay the same when everything else changes, people get married too young, women are no longer bound to relationships for fear of losing financial security, the institution of marriage is a failed and archaic concept
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My guess is that people have no idea of the meaning of the word, "forever". So many people grow up with no responsibility whatsoever. It's a bit hard to expect them to make a marriage work. Maybe if they were forced to look after a pet animal EVERY DAY for years on end as a child, maybe then they would have an idea of what they are up against. If I am right then making older children look after younger ones, making younger children look after pets, having children working on a farm (where they have to "milk the cows every bloody day ...") should help grow those children into adults that can handle marriage. It's only a guess but I like it. All comments welcome for and against.
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Because you need a relationship with God first.
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Emotional immaturity, fostered by parents that want everything for their kids, and make it easy for them to have it without working for it. Then they grow up, get involved in marriages, and as soon as things get 'too hard' they're gone.
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Because so many relationships are starting...
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Because people are not moving past lust or sentiment usually due to selfishness and not wanting to give to their partners what their partners want, not what you are willing to give.
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Most couples enter a relationship with the idea in mind that if it doesn't work out then they will just move on and get out of it rather than trying to stick with it and work through it. They take the easy route because thats what they have seen so many other people do.
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Because, there are lots of cheating, always lying, dishonest, untrustworthy, disrespects, too much control, no fun, no desire and lack of interest in sex, always argue, living with double life's, having too many sex partners, no understandings, having sex relationships with prostitutes, breaking marriage commitments and breaking promises, having bad friendships and spread false rumors about you, listening nay sayres even don't look at with own eyes, jealousy, physically and emotionally abusive, boredom sexual variety (the desire for different type of sex or particular sex act) sexual addictions, unhappiness, don't pay enough attention on relationships, stops caring, relationship become too unhealthy, become mentally or physically, verbally abusive, neglecting, not taking responsibility's, no peaceful, messing up, playing around with and much more.....
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In my case... Because of opportunistic bitches that take things away from people they see as weaker, just for shits and giggles. Too many power trippy psychotic bitches out there that do things just because they know they can rather than thinking things through and trying to help someone rather than help destroy them.
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I think some of it is that people are only looking out for themselves. Some of it people not knowing how to respond correctly to things. There can be so many reasons.
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Many relationship are failing for the following suggested reasons: (1) It is not built on the principle of mutuality - not much common ground. (2) It is not built on the principle of morality. (3) It is not built on the principle of parental relationship. (4) It is not built on the principle of timing - no proper understanding of each other with regards important issues like finance, in-laws, etc. (5) Lack of essential in marriage
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good question, i think a better one is, "what keeps relationships from failing?" i think more and more people grow up in a home where their parents are no longer together, so they see divorce/separation as normal or inevitable. most people don't realize ANY couple can be happy together if they both want to be http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=15712188
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because people are getting into them for all the wrong reasons, what happened to marrying for love? for better or worse, sickness and health???
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Because as a society we have gotten away from commitment, and values and ethics.
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Three primary factors. Living together instead of marriage, living together followed by marriage, and getting married under the age of 24. Rutgers University Study - Should We Live Together? Cohabiting couples breakup three times more than married couples. Cohabiting couples that later marry have a 46% higher rate of divorce than those who did not cohabit prior to marriage. http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SWLT2%20TEXT.htm http://tinyurl.com/Right-Age-To-Marry
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Well, let's see... We live in a culture that is morally bankrupt. We have pushed God to the back burner. We have embraced liberal ideas like free sex, threesomes, homosexuality and pluralism. We watch prime time television filled with sex, murder, and drugs. We have a generation of latch key kids that never had good values taught them and now they are adults with no direction. Young adult women who have had a dozen or more sexual relations and now have become numb to the spiritual and emotional bonding of sex. We have men who have been brought-up with the notion that you put a notch in your belt for each woman you have laid, as a badge of honor! We cherish the dollar more than our marriage so couples spend all their time working and not keeping up the home or the marriage! With all this, I am surprise that anyone bothers with marriage, anymore!
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Most people do not create a sturdy foundation to build a relationship on! They have sex immediately, have babies before marriage and morals are a thing of the past.
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Because we live in a crappy world!
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I think alot of people get married for the wrong reasons.
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