Signs That Your Relationship is Too Dependant On Sex

Is your relationship deep enough? Or is it all about sex?

A healthy relationship is one where physical and emotional intimacy is achieved. The couple grows within the relationship. So what happens when there is too much physical bond or the relationship is based entirely on emotional interaction? A relationship skewed on either side is not healthy.

How can you tell if your relationship is out-of-balance and that it is all about sex? Here are the tell-tale signs:

1. When you get together, it’s all about sex and nothing more.
2. When conversations are superficial.
3. You don’t feel engaged with the other person outside sex. Only during sex is when you truly feel anything with the person you’re with.
4. The only time you feel happy is when you’re with the person during sex.
5. There’s hardly any conversation around creating a future.
6. You have no inclination to get your partner to meet with close friends or family.
7. You don’t enjoy cuddling after sex.

Find that you’ve checked off more than 3 out of the 7 signs?

This is a strong indication to rethink the relationship. While sex is key to strengthening it, the conversations and emotional connections are just as important in building it up in the long term.

Speaking of conversations, it is not just ANY kind of conversation. If you find you and your partner talking about the weather and answers about how your day went, then it is time to explore this other dimension in the relationship. Talk about values, beliefs and how did you arrive at them.

If you’re re-evaluating the relationship, before your call it quits, decide for yourself if you want to work on the relationship. Does your partner see it the same way? Clear things up with each other and be on the same page.

Here are some guiding questions you both can use to decide:

• Where do you see ‘us’ in the next 2 years?
• What are you looking for in a relationship?
• When do you think is the right time for us to take the next steps in our relationship of meeting the parents?

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