5. Your relationship puts on hold your individual and collective growth
A healthy and strong relationship should actually function as a support system for both individual and collective growth, but when your partner puts you on hold, your relationship could become toxic enough to change your entire future (and not in a good way).
“Stunted growth is a clear indicator that couples need therapy to help them remove the old tangled roots and branches which aren’t life-sustaining, the ones that sometimes appear to be healthy, but are actually draining the life out of the healthy parts over time,” says life coach Hilary Porta.