What are your expectations in your current relationship? Do you wish for your partner to like the things that you like, enjoy the things that you enjoy doing, and share the same passion with you? Or do you want your partner to carve their own path along with you?

In many relationships, this idealism that your partner needs to like what you like, love what you love, and hate what you hate in the pretext that it should be how they show their love for you can be toxic. It can strip away your partner's identity and freedom. It can be suffocating.

In this episode of On Purpose, Jay Shetty tells us the common mistakes we make that don't help our relationships grow and what you can do now to strengthen it.

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Key Takeaways:

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:41 The mistakes we make in a relationship
• 02:58 Mistake #1: We make someone our everything
• 07:28 Mistake #2: You’re with someone for they could be, not for who they are
• 12:33 Mistake #3: You stay too long because you’re scared to be seen as the bad person
• 15:04 Mistake #4: We trade time with our partners instead of creating new experiences
• 16:39 Mistake #5: You want them to like what you like
• 18:12 Mistake #6: You don’t take the time to understand why they are the way they are
• 20:06 Mistake #7: You talk to too many people but not to the person you’re in a relationship with
• 21:31 Mistake #8: You’re mad at them for the sacrifices you made that they didn’t ask for
• 23:47 Mistake #9: Know the difference between ownership, partnership, and relationship

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