{"id":118355,"date":"2009-12-31T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2009\/12\/31\/how-to-deal-with-an-overly-critical-partner\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T07:35:00","slug":"how-to-deal-with-an-overly-critical-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/118355","title":{"rendered":"How to Deal With An Overly Critical Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAre you involved with a partner who is always second-guessing you or making you feel like you’re never good enough? <\/span>Dr. Nina W. Brown<\/a>, author of <\/span>Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People<\/span>, explains how overly critical partners can poison a relationship and offers some tips on how to deal with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Q: What kind of impact does a critical personality have on their partner and on the relationship?<\/p>\n

<\/span>A: Overly critical partners do not perceive themselves as overly critical, or even sometimes as being critical. They are seeking perfection, and unconsciously assume that others also have a desire and need to be perfect. They can be convinced on a deep level that their way is the only “right” way, and that others should recognize this and comply.
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\n<\/span>Relationships can suffer when one partner is overly critical as the other partner can never be or act in a way that eliminates most of the criticism. And all criticism can never be eliminated because perfection is never achieved.<\/p>\n

Tips for dealing with a critical partner, after the jump…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Love & Relationships, Advice Are you involved with a partner who is always second-guessing you or making you feel like you’re never good enough? Dr. Nina W. Brown, author of Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People, explains how overly critical partners can poison a relationship and offers some tips on how to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}