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Keep falling for people who hurt you? Relationship coach shares the signs of the right person

Updated on: Feb 11, 2025, 12:33:45 IST
Many people are inherently attracted to partners who hurt them the most. (Shutterstock)
Many people are inherently attracted to partners who hurt them the most. (Shutterstock)
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When attracted to people who keep hurting you, relationship feels like a struggle. To best your inner tendency to catch red flags, know the green flags first.

Emotionally, mentally, or physically hurting someone in a relationship is anything but an act of love. Yet, people often have an innate tendency to fall for those who hurt them. Breaking away from the habit of falling for red flags is a healing journey in itself. So, how to identify the right person?

Relationship coach Bambie Blom shared a few green flags to look for in the right person. Abuse is seen as romantic, simply because it feels like attention. It’s time to change that perspective by attracting the right energy.

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Signs of the right person

With the right person, love will feel like a stroll, hand-in-hand, not a race where you're constantly struggling to catch up or feeling like your partner is outpacing you. All the signs Bambie suggested show that the right person will value you and believe in mutual respect.

Love is not a battlefield

You don't have to be resilient to the abuse in the relationship in order to prove your worth.

Bambie explained an important lesson that everyone should keep in mind- love is a safe space, not a battlefield. She reiterated that the right person will calm you, care for you, and continuously choose you, no matter what.

Many people often treat love as a competitive sport, feeling the need to prove their worth to hold onto it. But, Bambie explained that real love is inherently very difficult to abandon.

A relationship should be a space that heals and not one that wears you down.

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Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and not a substitute for professional advice.

 
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Adrija Dey’s proclivity for observation fuels her storytelling instinct. As a lifestyle journalist, she crafts compelling, relatable narratives across diverse touchpoints of the human experience, including wellness, mental health, relationships, interior design, home decor, food, travel, and fashion that gently nudge readers toward living a little better. For her, stories exist in flesh and bones, carried by human vessels and shaped through everyday endeavours. It is the small stories we live and share that make us human. After all, humans and their lores are the most natural and raw repositories of stories, and uncovering them, for her, is akin to peeling an orange under a winter afternoon sun. Always up for a chat, she believes the best stories come from unfiltered yapping, where "too much information" is kind of the point. A graduate of Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi, and an alumna of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, Adrija spends her idle hours cocooned with herbal tea and a gripping thriller, scribbling inner monologues she loosely calls poetic pieces, often with her succulents in attendance. On lazier days, she can be found binge-watching, for the nth time, one from her comfort-show holy trinity: The Office (US), Brooklyn Nine-Nine, or Modern Family. Dancing by herself to her peppy playlists, however, is an everyday ritual she swears by religiously.

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