28 Toxic Things That Your Partner Should Stop Doing Right Now (6 of 7)

Asking you to justify their addiction

If they expect you to cover for their addiction, or give excuses for their wrongdoings and uncontrollable alcohol or drug abuse, then you need to re-evaluate your choice in partners.

Your partner expecting you to cover-up for their addiction and instability is preposterous, and they should understand that. Moreover, if they get annoyed with you for preventing them from indulging time and again into their addiction or trying to stop their habit, you’re not in the right place.

Consider talking to them about it all and helping them out, if not, walk out of the relationship and help yourself instead.

Actively trying to make you cut ties with your best friend

Your partner is certainly not your friendship guru, so they have no right to tell you whom to be friends with, especially if you’ve been friends with them even before you entered into a relationship.

They can open your eyes to the toxicity or unhealthy nature of the friendship, but that’s about it. Anything beyond that such as asking you to drop it altogether or cut ties off even when you don’t want to is completely unacceptable.

Making you confront your fears when you are not ready

It can be possible that you have deep-seated fears or insecurities that you are not ready to confront yet. Supposedly, you’re scared of bungee jumping and cannot imagine yourself doing it for the life of you.

If your partner is not respectful towards your fears and forces you to face them even if you aren’t ready, then their dismissive nature towards your fears is a cause of concern.

Insisting you to do something that you’re scared of while assuring you that they would be there to protect you is one thing, but shaming you into trying it out is a whole different issue that needs to be addressed.

Manipulating you into applying for a divorce

If your partner thinks that the relationship has hit rock bottom and there is no way out, filing for a divorce should entirely be their call.

They should not pester you to take the initiative instead. Because chances are, once you do, it becomes a good sympathy seeking story.

They might go around tweaking the situation and spreading rumors that you were the one to give up and call it quits, and what more, there will be a legal document supporting it.