Sami WunderCEO, Dating and Relationship Coach For Ambitious Women / 1200+ client success stories / Mum / Wife

Are you being taken for granted?

1 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, relationship coach Sami Wunder explains how to recognize when a romantic partner is taking you for granted. She outlines key behaviors such as hot‑and‑cold attitudes, inconsistent communication, and a lack of initiative to meet or stay in touch. Wunder emphasizes that these patterns create an emotional imbalance: the viewer invests time, energy, and emotional focus while receiving little reciprocal effort. This mismatch leads to feelings of being undervalued and frustrated, highlighting the importance of recognizing these signs to assess the health of the dating dynamic.

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In a dating dynamic, the feeling of being taken for granted could look like that you don't find that the man you like or the man you're seeing is investing a lot of his time, energy, and attention on you. So he tends to blow hot and cold. He tends to be inconsistent in his communication. And you find that if you wouldn't bring up the topic of meeting again, or you find that if you wouldn't initiate the call or the text, then you might not hear from him for a long time. In this situation, you feel taken for granted because your emotions are invested. And you feel taken for granted because you feel like the effort you're putting in emotionally and in terms of your time, your headspace, your energy into this man and into this connection is not being returned to you in the same proportionate way.