Is Your Desire For Approval Hurting Your Marriage?

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Insecurity and the desire for approval can create lasting damage in a marriage. Are you allowing them to destroy your love and affect your partner? These deep-seated desires are difficult to eliminate, but you can achieve this.

The desire for approval can create an unhealthy relationship. Codependence and other issues can appear, so it’s important for you to recognize them right away.

If you struggle with a constant desire for approval, consider these ideas:

1. Understand insecurity and codependence. If you’re continually trying to get approval from your partner, this makes the relationship codependent. You’re stuck depending on your partner to make you feel better each day.

Insecurity naturally attracts people who feed it.

Your partner may not even realize that he or she is feeding your insecurity. However, little comments and clues throughout the relationship can show this.

Your desire for their approval makes you question everything you do. It hurts your ability to make decisions since you have to ask their opinion all the time. It affects your ability to act like an adult since you are essentially in child mode.

2. Notice your partner’s reaction. Your partner may feel fine about having to give you…