Did you know there are only two ways that a relationship can end? Marriage or Breakup. When you get into a relationship, you may gain problems with your significant other. Some problems you may have are lack of trust, believing rumors, not communicating as much, or getting your friends’ opinions on an argument. Don’t worry, you are not alone. Here are 10 common relationship problems couples have.

1. Don’t seek your friends opinions on YOUR relationship:

Nowadays, everyone always asks their friends for advice on what they should do. This may cause your friends to stop liking your boyfriend or girlfriend and start disliking them. It’s better to keep your business between you and your boyfriend or girlfriend because at the end someone is going to get hurt and sometimes friends give the wrong advice to couples they tend to be jealous of.

2. Overthinking:

Overthinking can kill a relationship, it affects a person so much that sometimes it causes that person to gain trust issues to their partner and make the relationship go down hell. It can lead to self-sabotage by creating a barrier, sometimes people go beyond to find more information about their partner and create problems or scenarios when they are none.

3. Doing something that your significant other did not agree with but you did it anyway:

Many couples don’t always agree on many things that they want to do. For example, your best friend might invite you to a party, but your partner doesn’t want to go and wants you to stay home, too. Maybe you go anyway. This can cause many couples to lose trust in each other because they can end up getting hurt or end up cheating. This hurts many couples because it’s something both of you didn’t agree on and maybe your partner had plans for that particular night with you, you just didn’t know. This ends up as a break up 25% of the time.

4. Jealousy:

Jealousy can come from anyone. Relationships often start to see jealousy when an old friend comes into the picture or when someone sees their girl/guy flirting with someone. Usually jealousy is one way to cause overthinking. Sometimes your partner may keep it to themselves, but you find out about it one day which can lose trust in a relationship.                                       

5. Love and affection:

Love and affection is one of the many things couples have in the first month of being together. This causes couples to attach themselves to each other and become closer, but sometimes it can be a problem. Couples don’t always give their partner the same level of love that the partner is asking for which can cause problems and make them believe there is someone else in the picture. Usually this problem happens the more you are together.            

6.Keeping things to yourself:

You may be keeping stuff to yourself in a relationship probably because you don’t want to hurt your partner or you don’t want to be judged based on the past decisions you made. Sometimes, your partner may find out what you are keeping which can cause arguments that you don’t trust them or what you made wasn’t supposed to be known but it is. Sometimes someone can create a version of your story and retell it in a way that you didn’t mention and it can lead to your partner knowing about it, and they don’t even know who to believe. Some relationships end because of this.

 7.Making jokes that can be hurtful to your partner:

Making jokes is always a fun part of a relationship. Making jokes about anything can bring up a mood, but sometimes the jokes you or your partner make can make the other feel like they’re being judged or make them feel feelings that they are not supposed to feel. Some people can be sensitive to some of the jokes if they feel like the joke is towards them. This causes arguments about the joke and it can definitely affect a person.

8. Long distance relationships:

Did you know at least 40% of long distance relationships come to an end? Long distance relationships are one of the hardest relationships because this usually involves tons of trust. Many couples tend to overthink or even cheat while their partner is at home or at school. 24% of long distance breakups are for cheating. Long distance is hard and can cause many arguments and so many thoughts that shouldn’t be in your head.

9.Cheating:

Cheating can cause a person pain. Usually cheating comes when a person is bored or there isn’t a lot of action in a relationship. Sometimes it’s because they find another person attractive. Studies have shown that 23% of men cheat and 12% of women cheat. The only reason this causes problems is because after your partner finds out, they don’t know their value anymore, they are going to think they were the reason for it and that everything is their fault when it isn’t.

10. Addiction:

Addiction in a relationship can increase trust issues, and can cause many arguments. An addiction can be very hard for your partner to stop, they may want to do it with you or do it by themselves but it definitely causes tons of problems within that relationship. They may have the urge to do things while you don’t which can definitely affect one another. There are cravings and a loss of control when it comes to being in a relationship with a specific person.