Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about relationship red flags,

how to avoid dysfunctional intimate relationships is one of the biggest hurdles and obstacles that prevents

people from self actualizing and living up to their full potential life.

People waste decades of their life in terrible toxic relationships that are going nowhere

and they know that they're going nowhere and yet they're trapped in these relationships and they can't break out and because of this they waste so much of their energy

These these relationships can become so abusive and so

dysfunctional and so toxic and they just screw with your emotion so much that

you're not able to accomplish anything of lasting value in your life.

You're not able to focus on personal growth.

You're not able to focus on your health.

You're not able to focus on your life purpose, on your business, on your career,

or even on creating a great family or

creating a healthy relationship. So what I wanted to do is I wanted to help you to

avoid this. This is a long list. I sat down and started writing up all these different

red flags for how to identify if you're in a dysfunctional relationship and the

list just kept getting longer and longer and longer but I think it's important to go through it so here we go let's just get right into it.

The first red flag very obvious is substance abuse. So alcohol, drugs, smoking. Alcohol abuse, terrible. Your relationship is going to fail if your partner is addicted to any of these kinds of substances.

Right? So be very careful about this. Keep your eyes open.

As soon as you see any signs of this overuse of alcohol. I mean a little bit of alcohol is

okay but overuse of alcohol and then excessive smoking and any kind of drugs really you should ditch that relationship.

Another one is if your partner is asking to borrow money from you,

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