Even if there were no problems, if you still don’t know whether you want to be in this relationship, then you’re indicating a deep discomfort with something about your partner or your relationship. Is having custody more likely, and have you thought through what it’s like to parent kids on your own? this books is a really good guide for those trying to figure out if they should stay or go in a relationship. This book can help with that, as it offers practical questions with regards to the status of the relationship. In spite of admirable qualities, and stepping back from any temporary anger or disappointment, do you genuinely like your partner, and does your partner seem to like you?

TOO GOOD TO LEAVE, TOO BAD TO STAY: How To Make The Perfect Decision TOO GOOD TO LEAVE, TOO BAD TO STAY: How To Make The Perfect

Do you have a basic, recurring, never-completely-going-away feeling of humiliation or invisibility in your relationship? When the subject of intimacy comes up between you and your partner, is there generally a battle over what intimacy is and how to get it?This is a time to be brutally honest: do you have the characteristics that’ll make it relatively easy to find dates? Yet, even as she encourages insights, Kirshenbaum, a trained psychotherapist who offers relationship counseling in Boston, is careful to remain in neutral territory, making no hard and fast judgments. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship—and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing. Quick take: If you’re especially attracted to your partner, there’s something special about your relationship. Also, it offers guidance in answering the questions so that you can start making a diagnosis analysis on the relationship you and your partner are in.

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help

This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should even try—or if you need to go. The majority of question focus on "deal-breakers", or characteristics that predict an unhappy relationship: Has there been more than one incident of physical violence in your relationship? I was only reading it out of curiosity as I am not in a relationship that I am ambivalent about however it was fascinating applying some of the concepts to past relationships and understanding behaviours and differing perspectives that could could be deal breakers. If you’ve made it clear what your real bottom lines are and your partner’s violated them anyway, then by definition you will not be happy if you stay and you will only be happy if you leave.In spite of all the ways you’re different, would you say that deep down or in some respect that’s important to you your partner is someone just like you in a way you feel good about? Have you gotten to the point, when your partner says something, that you usually feel it's more likely that they are lying than they are telling the truth?

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help You Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step by Step Guide to Help

Like most relationships, there was both good and bad, and trying to decide if it was more good or bad was driving me insane.

If you can say that right now you feel your partner’s reasonably nice, smart, sane, not ugly, and okay smelling to you, you’ve removed an important obstacle to your finding your way back to each other.