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The marriage audit: 12 questions every long-term couple should ask — The Times and The Sunday Times When you’ve been with your partner for a long time you can get into a rut. You know your roles, you think you know each other — but as the years pass, assumption and lack of understanding can override effort and curiosity. The love is there but real intimacy has dwindled. You want to be closer b...

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"There’s much been said and written about red flags. Those pesky warning signs that are usually evident, early on, if we choose to listen to our gut.⁠ ⁠ Our gut or intuition, however you identify it, is our inner warning system. It’s true that sometimes it can be mistaken for anxiety and vice versa, depending on our belief system and previous traumas—but the truth is we ignore it far more than we should, to our own detriment.⁠ ⁠ Many of us understand red flags, and there are universal ones and ones that would be more individual to our own personal circumstances. Things like love bombing, actions not matching words, anger outbursts, gaslighting, and physical and emotional abuse are among the more obvious ones, although sadly some of us still do get caught up in these red-flag relationships, or don’t realise until too late and damage has been done.⁠ ⁠ When these types of relationships end or it finally becomes clear what is going on, we will often reflect, and to our own distress, we will see things with a clarity of a sledgehammer hitting us, that part of us, a deep knowing within us, was trying to warn us all along.⁠ ⁠ I believe there are also orange flags; the reality is that they are as dangerous as red flags but sometimes not as obvious."⁠ ⁠ Article by: @ladyschafe⁠ ⁠ ➡️ Link in bio* to read the full article & support indie media when you do so.⁠ ⁠ *To access the link in our bio, simply click on our @elephantjournal username to get to our profile page, then click the linkin.bio/elephantjournal under our bio to get you to our clickable feed.⁠