complaining about your partner to others. tell your partner directly what is bothering you and work it out together. it is, after all, about you two and no one else.
i often hear people say: “i just want him/her to love me. that’s all. i’m not asking that much!”. sounds simple enough. the catch, however, is this: what “love” looks like to one, is different than what “love” looks like to the other. for example, i might need a lot of alone time and need a partner who is willing to create space for this. my partner, on the other hand, may associate an expression of love as spending a lot 