10 Behaviors You Should Never Accept In Your Relationship

Keep your standards high and boundaries strong.

James Michael Sama
8 min readMar 29, 2023

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We talk a lot about emotional boundaries, which are the lines that you draw around the behavior and treatment that you will (and won’t) accept from the people around you.

At times, they’re the most difficult to maintain in an intimate relationship, because emotions run high, judgment can become cloudy, and we can “let things slide” that we know we shouldn’t.

Below, we’ll discuss some behaviors that throw up major red flags and should violate even the most forgiving person’s boundaries.

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1: Repeated broken promises.

A promise, I believe, should only be made with the clear intention of being kept, but I understand that life can get in the way, circumstances change, and sometimes things that are outside of our control can prevent us from following through on something we said we’d do.

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James Michael Sama
James Michael Sama

Written by James Michael Sama

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