Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

Why Couples Resent Each Other 😒

12 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken piece by Jacqueline Elliott explaining why couples can develop deep resentment despite appearing conflict-free. The speaker contrasts couples who endure overt crises with those who avoid fights; argues that persistent avoidance and unspoken grievances accumulate — "death by a thousand paper cuts" — until partners no longer feel love or even like each other.

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There are certain couples that go through a lot of adversity in their life. They go through infidelities, addiction, deaths in the family, lots of different things. And they make it through that. And then all of a sudden you see another couple, they're like, they never fought. They never fought. And then all of a sudden they resent each other. They resent each other and they have no idea why. They have no idea why. They can't even look at each other and still feel like they. They're in love. They just resent one another. And it's death by a thousand paper cuts. It's fights that you've avoided. All those times you stay quiet. All those times you had a voice and you didn't talk about stuff, all those times you were trying to avoid something, all those little times added on. And then a couple years go by, you can't even identify why you don't even like each other.