Sacrifices?

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Hey ladies! Have you ever had to make a lot of sacrifices in order to help keep you’re relationship happy and healthy? I’m looking just for simple advice with making sacrifices and keeping me and my mans relationship happy and healthy, and hopefully others will benefit from this too!

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While i believe in sacraficing for a relationship.... i beleive every women should only give or sacrafice extras. After I was in a tumultuous relationship where i overgave and was left broken I have grown and learned the error in mybwayband really the way of many women in a relationship. A sacrafice in a relationship should not diminish you. And if u will be left regretting your decision after breaking up.... you should only sacrafice in such a way that you would be left complete and whole. Alot of women on glow say I gave him this.. and that... but then receieved nothing in return. A relationship should be mutually beneficial. And if a person cannot or does not pour into your life or enhance your life mentally emotionally physically and financially then it is no good for u. A relationship should make u better and should be for the most part equal in sacrafice and if its not...u should exit.  Sometimes in relationships we do have to pick up the slack or carry our partner but ..... it shouldn’t be the say all be all of the relationahip.

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There is a balance. Two of my close friends broke up with each other two years ago. She has a lot of mental health issues and he just realized they wanted different things from life. He didn’t want to be married or have kids when they first met. He told her he was willing to marry and have at least one but he wasn’t quite ready for that yet. He was more than willing to make compromise. She basically wanted 6 kids and was upset they weren’t married yet. Neither of them had steady jobs and she was still working on her Masters. There was also a slew of other problems and they just really clash. He broke up with her but a few months later his family ran into her and told him how terrible she looked and he should at least call and check on her. So...he did. She made a ton of promises about how she’d be there more for him (they would go weeks without seeing each other and he had even invited her to live with him but she kept telling him no) and then she wouldn’t see him on days they were available for reasons like doing laundry. They got back together and things were good for a year and now it’s bad again and all they do is bicker when we’re together. I like her as a person but I really hope they break up again. He’s miserable and she is as well...but I think it’s her mental health in the way. She’s already seeing two different therapists and is on meds so he’s trying to do the right thing but he’s made so many sacrifices at this point that it’s completely unfair.

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Yes. I mean everyone in a healthy relationship should make sacrifices for their partner at various times...

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Lost my best friend over the guy I’m dating now, but considering I’m happier now with him as my best friend, I don’t see a loss. After that though, I lost a lot of friends just due to high school drama. If anything though, it made me realize who was really there for me. 🤷‍♀️

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No. I never sacrifice anything and niether does my husband. We alwats find a compromise that makes us both happy.

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This really surprises me lol I’ve never had to make sacrifices unless they were completely necessary and beneficial for the both of us. If you have to make a ton of sacrifices just to be in a healthy relationship then you’re just not compatible and you’re trying to force it.

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I Sacrificed a lot in my previous relationship, always putting his needs first. It was codependent at best and the guy was a manipulative liar who, looking back, refused to let me keep my attention off him for any extended period of time. My current relationship is MUCH healthier, even tho we are currently in a semi-long distance relationship in neighboring states. We make sacrifices for each other but make sure to have boundaries and not overextend ourselves.

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I don’t call it a sacrifice in that case. That implies I’m giving something up, or am losing something. I “sacrificed” a year in Russia (I’m a language student so it would’ve been great for me) in order to save my relationship. We ended up breaking up anyway but I still don’t regret it. My priority was my relationship so it wasn’t a loss. It wasn’t a sacrifice. It was a choice I happily made. 
However, if one person is the only one who ever makes changes or gives things up for the sake of the relationship, that’s a problem. It’s an unequal burden then, and it’s not fair to the partner who’s constantly changing. And it shows that the other partner (who isn’t ever changing things) is totally okay taking advantage and letting their partner give up things that they might actually really want, or might genuinely make them happier. If they’re okay with you always giving up other chances of happiness, then they don’t really love you 🤷‍♀️

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I gave up doing alevels, moved country, left my family and friends, and I’d do it all again

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Yes but the person still doesn’t give a fuck!

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