| To begin with, there are certainly more than five | | | | which take them away from the home they |
| ways to prompt your partner to want to leave; in | | | | share with their partner. When it comes to |
| fact there are certainly more than five hundred | | | | neglect, the perpetrator often does not realise he |
| ways if we are honest. However, for the sake of | | | | or she is neglecting their partner until it is too late. |
| saving screen space and boring everyone rigid, | | | | 4. Jealousy. This one is the most destructive and |
| we will deal with the most likely five! | | | | heartbreaking cause of so many broken |
| 1. Nagging. Why do we do it? Why do so many of | | | | relationships. Jealousy is a terrible emotion that |
| us take perverse pleasure in bullying those we | | | | exhausts everyone who comes into contact with |
| love? Often the satisfaction of letting off steam is | | | | it. Grounds for jealousy are often imagined by the |
| outweighed by the risk of the object of our | | | | sufferer and do not exist at all, except in their |
| dreams walking away forever, yet we recklessly | | | | own fevered and discontented mind. As an |
| take the risk. People with deep and passionate | | | | emotion it benefits nobody and makes everyone |
| love for their partners still cannot resist | | | | miserable. Interestingly, so many jealous people |
| complaining and moaning about money, their | | | | happily admit they have a jealous nature, smiling |
| partners friends, whether they have taken out | | | | as they do so, as if their jealous disposition |
| the garbage today, who should drive the car, who | | | | makes them smarter than anyone else or serves |
| dented the car, whether they are faithful, and so | | | | as a warning to new acquaintances that they are |
| on. Tragically, nagging can become a way of life in | | | | on the ball when it comes to surveillance of their |
| record time, eventually rendering the nagger | | | | partner´s whereabouts and activities. |
| unbearable and the 'nag-ee' desperate to escape. | | | | Unaware that their jealous streak only makes |
| Human beings gravitate to calm and friendliness. If | | | | them look insecure and childish, they cruise |
| you want to hang onto your partner long enough | | | | through multiple relationships, wrecking each one |
| to have a fulfilling relationship, give up the nagging | | | | systematically with their programme of 'searching |
| and concentrate on providing an atmosphere of | | | | and destroying' their imaginary rivals. |
| love and serenity. | | | | 5. Boredom. We are all guilty of this one. |
| 2. Cheating. People have been cheating on each | | | | Sometimes we just want to sit in a chair and |
| other since time began. We as a species must be | | | | watch something mindless and unintelligent on the |
| extremely unintelligent - we know without doubt | | | | box. We do not want to be interesting and |
| that cheating is something that is always | | | | talkative and entertain our partners with the |
| eventually exposed, yet we fool ourselves that is | | | | events of the day. We just don´t. The |
| is only for a short time, or that we are so careful | | | | danger is when this becomes a daily routine and |
| it is unlikely our duplicity will be discovered by our | | | | our partners feel they cannot take it another |
| partners: It always is, in the end. Cheats are | | | | minute. Regardless of whether we have had a |
| never quite happy in life. They live out their | | | | hard day and feel like a two hour soak in the |
| passions on the backs of their loved ones and | | | | bath, we must remember there is more than one |
| never actually achieve long term contentment. | | | | person in this tiny world called 'a relationship.' Most |
| Such people are guaranteed to find good natured, | | | | loving partners are understanding enough to back |
| good looking partners who are interesting and | | | | off occasionally when some personal space is |
| highly motivated; they are also guaranteed to lose | | | | called for. The danger occurs when personal |
| them within a couple of years. Dumb. | | | | space becomes a permanent exclusion zone. By |
| 3. Neglect. Men are more likely to be guilty of this, | | | | all means take time out for yourself, but when |
| although some women are equally thoughtless | | | | you do so remember there is someone else |
| when it comes to sharing out attention. We all | | | | outside the door, who needs to have a chat and |
| have careers, interests, friends and things that | | | | a hug and a polite enquiry about how their day |
| occupy us outside our relationships with our | | | | has been. Yours are not the only needs to |
| partners. There must, however, be a balance | | | | consider. |
| when it comes to dividing our attentions between | | | | Talking is the pivot around which relationships may |
| the things that interest us and the person who | | | | spin - or sometimes spin off! Couples who |
| provides us with love and affection. The reason | | | | determinedly talk to each other, even if their |
| that men might be more susceptible to neglecting | | | | partner's point of view is exasperating sometimes, |
| their wives or girlfriends is probably because their | | | | are far more likely to succeed in their relationship |
| interests and hobbies are more often likely to be | | | | than couples who pout at each other's faults and |
| outside the home. Women by nature are more | | | | walk in the other direction. Talk to each other |
| likely to be interested in hobbies that centre | | | | about everything; problems, work, money and |
| around their home and children. Men, on the other | | | | hobbies. The friendship that develops through this |
| hand, take a common interest in football, golf, | | | | companionship holds the relationship together |
| bowling, car clubs; all kinds of outside interests | | | | through all kinds of drama and aggravation. |