Sadia Khan and a guest discuss three red flags in dating. A partner's unresolved childhood trauma is the biggest one: people who grew up in chaos often believe love is painful and will sabotage relationships, potentially making you their "punching bag." Look for whether they've actually worked through their past.
What would you say are the three big flags that a man or a woman should look out for when they're entering a new dating relationship?
Unfortunately, I really hate to say this because we can't really control this, but your childhood. Unfortunately, your childhood creates an embedded kind of conflict between you and love. When we have a chaotic childhood, what we do is we create a core belief about ourselves that we're not worthy of love, we don't deserve love, or love is painful. And because that's a core belief, we go through life looking for somebody to validate that core belief. Now, if I meet somebody loving even, I will still try and create that core belief and make love chaotic. So, oh, I'll sabotage or do something. So unfortunately, you have to look at their childhood. Now, it doesn't mean if they've got a bad childhood.
They'Ve written half, but.
If they haven't acknowledged the impact, you're going to start the healing process. You're going to be the punching bag.