How do you know it’s time to break up with someone?
While everyone's a little bit different, the therapist says it comes down to some pretty big things and isn’t a rash decision.
Values that don’t align: Having different values to your partner or a lack of shared vision, such as what you want your life to look like together.
A lack of emotional intimacy: When they stop investing in the relationship and then just become a bit more empathetic around it.
Arguing over the same things: If you're constantly having the same fights over and over again, where you’re blaming or criticising each other, and avoiding dealing with the relationship.
If your love language is being ignored If your needs aren’t being met in regards to intimacy, acts of service or how you’re spoken to, that can be really problematic.
Mismatched sexual desires: Everyone has a different level of what’s important to them when it comes to sexual desire, intimacy and affection, but mismatched levels could become an issue.
“So I think when those things start to erode, you’ve got to either do the work mutually or you have to just say, ‘Hey, you know what, there are plenty of fish in the sea’,” says Maree.