20 Simple Things You Can Do To Stop Overthinking And Make Your Relationship Flourish (3 of 4)

Try Not To Ask For Advice So Often

While you may be thinking that you are making your special one feel special by asking for their advice on every matter, you are in fact causing annoyance to them. Moreover, you also come across as dependent and insecure when you aren’t confident in your decisions. Our work lives have become so demanding that your partner hardly cares about the color of the sheets or the coffee you order. So, make that decision quickly by yourself and you’d be doing both of yourselves a favor.

As for advice from others about your relationship, it can rarely prove to be of any help for you.

Therefore, it’s best that you evaluate and sort them out yourself.

Keep Yourself Occupied

When you have nothing productive to do, it’s very likely that your brain will wander. You’ll come up with baseless assumptions about your partner’s attitude towards you. Such thoughts fill you with discontentment and, as a result, cause problems in your relationship.

Sandra Henderson, a love coach suggests that the ideal way to overcome overthinking is to keep oneself busy. You can go for a walk, or go out shopping, or simply call a friend the moment you realize you are losing control of your thoughts.

Direct Your Efforts Towards Personal Fulfillment

The time you waste mulling over things that are hardly of any importance is never going to come back. In order for your relationship to thrive, you have to work on achieving personal fulfillment as well. Be it your professional goals or personal aspirations, without growth you are bound to be dissatisfied and the same will affect your relationship negatively.

On the other hand, if you are content and happy, you’ll radiate the same energy to your partner too. This will reinforce their belief that they are with the right person.

Trust Your Intuition

Are you having this gut feeling that your partner is keeping things from you? Well, you’ve known them a while so can’t be having this feeling for no reason. However, the multitude of queries cropping up in your head can’t be resolved by racking your brain tirelessly. Emily Bruner, a physiotherapist, suggests that to solve it once and for all, the only way is to approach your partner regarding it and allowing them to open up.

Stay Grounded

Xanet Pailet, a sex coach, says that those who overthink often have a hard time believing that the complete truth is what they are already aware of. This causes them anxiety and negative thoughts about their partner’s faithfulness or about the progress of their relationship.

If you keep in mind to stay grounded, you’ll easily be able to deal with such thoughts. This is so because, when grounded, you are able to counter any negative feeling with logical points. Quite a good way to hold your overthinking habit gets the better of you.