7 Reasons For Breakups In Dating Relationships

Love is beautiful. Love is joy. Love takes you into a whole new world of experiences. However, what happens when things go wrong and head downward to a breakup. Where could things have gone so awfully awry? Let’s have a look at seven key reasons why breakups occur in dating relationships.

1. Missing human touch:

How often does dating become a non-serious flirt or just a fad with mere social implications? Realization may dawn early or late, but eventually everyone knows who is a true partner and who a mistake in life. 

Remember, dating relationships aren’t like games. Such a relationship is a link between two people that needs nourishment, commitment and above all genuine interest. 

2. Sex - Putting the wrong foot first:

There is no denying the fact that sex is after all seen as one of the ultimate culminations of intimacy. Experts, however advise keeping it to the later part of your relationship, ideally after marriage. 

Trust is lost if your partner feels that sex is the driving and sustaining cause for the dating relationship. 

3. The third person in the fray:

Jack loves Jill and so does she and they have the most beautiful of dating relationships. At the same time, Selina, Jack’s college mate is often seen going out with him. In fact, the rumor mills have it that Jack really likes Selina. How would Jill feel?

Infidelity - perceived or real, is in fact considered to be one of the top reasons for even marriage breakups, so what to speak of the starting point - your dating relationship?  

4. Selfishness ruling the roost:

Do you love yourself a lot more than your love? Perhaps that may not be so wrong in itself, but in any relationship, an element of selflessness is critical.

Have you been spending all your time on your own interests? Or have you been so boastful about yourself that the other just doesn’t feel heard? If yes, your dating relationship is in jeopardy, and it would be all your own doing. 

5. Unwilling to accept change:

A person arriving into your life is a whole new experience. Dating has its ups and downs. It involves learning, compromising and gaining from the other person. People who are unwilling to change themselves don’t fuel dating relationships well enough.

Your ability to adjust and “grow” with your partner is a catalyst in itself.
 
6. Inter-personal misunderstandings:

Dating relationships are sensitive affairs. Sometimes partners tend to be very perceptive of the other’s words, actions and may go to the extent of reading between lines and being presumptive.
A harsh word, ignoring the other, sometimes even over-possessiveness all gives rise to misunderstandings.

7. Opposite Priorities:

Opposites attract, at least initially, but eventually if it appears your life goals are poles apart, what do you do? The question is, well, how important are those priorities for each of you, can there be a compromise? Sustaining dating relationships may even need compromise from both partners.

Somebody said, “All is fair in love and war, but only the first is worth dying for.” We need not go that far - avoiding the above seven mistakes could go a long way in blossoming your dating relationship into a long standing joyful union.