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Stay Together or Break Up? How To Decide Now

Stay Together or Break Up? How To Decide Now

Use the "break up formula" to help you decide whether to stay in a relationship or end it all.

It's difficult to know when you should stay in a relationship and when you should stick it out. Not every relationship is black and white and not all bad relationships start off horribly. It is easy to justify little behavior quirks as harmless and brush them off. But sometimes those quirks can build into a destructive pattern. But how do you know when a quirk is just a quirk or a sign of some deeper problem? One writer tells about her experience dating a man who seemed like everything she was looking for, only he wasn't really looking for her.