Are You Emotionally Healthy Enough to Have Good Relationships?

Some people generally have successful, happy, and healthy relationships, while others seem frequently to struggle in this.

Brooke Meredith
7 min readApr 13, 2020
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If occasionally, you experience challenges in your relations with others, this is normal. Close connections with other human beings will, to a degree and at times, involve some challenge and navigation of difficulty. We all make mistakes and have bad moments. Thus, even great relationships can have tough times here and there.

If, however, you find yourself often going through challenges with others, and frequently experiencing relationships as dramatic, strained, unhappy, or even ending altogether (you’ve gone through many different friends over the years, and have had turbulent romances), this may signify a need to more closely examine your own behavior and emotional health since you are the constant in that equation.

We all know at least one person, and maybe a few like this. The person who routinely has troubles in a few or many of their relationships. The one who dates a succession of people with whom it just never seems to work out, with whom the relationship is a letdown, and who exhibited various red flags. The person who tends to cause drama in their connections with others, as…

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