25 Reasons Relationships Fail

You don’t have genuine respect for each other

Sulking, eye-rolling, sarcasm: all serious signs of disrespect. And if both of you are aiming them at each other all too often, that doesn’t bode well for the future. As clinical psychologist Lisa Firestone has explained in a 2016 Psychology Todayarticle, behaving disrespectfully “not only hurts our partner and his or her feelings for us, but it undermines our strength and feelings for our partner.”