Relationships And Stress

Relationship issues are one of the most common causes of chronic stress.  When your relationship isn’t happy or is having issues, it can effect your whole life.  A lot of people underestimage the importance of having a healthy relationship.  They may think other things like money, work, and kids come first.  But that can lead to serious troubles that actually affect all of those things.

Whenever your relationship is having problems, it causes stress.  Chronic stress can cause you to perform poorly at work, lead to job loss, and even cause you to mistreat other people around you, like coworkers, friends, and even your children.  When relationship problems are left to fester, they can spread into every other area of your life.

You may not even realize that you have serious issues in your relationship.  Some people are absolutely shocked when their mrelationship breaks up, having felt everything was ok.  But in retrospect they can often see that the relationship had been in trouble for some time.

As yourself these questions:

• Do you and your partner fight often more than once per week?
• Do you feel any anger, resentment, or hostility towards your partner?
• Do you ever suspect your partner might be cheating on you, or thinking about it?
• Are you cheating on your partner, or thinking about it?
• Do you ever find yourself wishing things could “be like they used to be”?
• Do you think you get enough attention from your partner?
• Do you feel you spend enough time together?
• Do you believe your sex life is mutually satisfying?

These are all issues that, while many are mild, can all lead to serious relationship troubles.  Things like cheating are obviously extremely detrimental to a relationship, but even minor issues like arguing often or feelings of lack of attention can mount up and lead to more severe problems.

Please take a good look at your relationship as a potential source of stress.  If you’ve been trying to de-stress your life and are still feeling the effects, this might be one place you’ve thus far overlooked!