Sometimes these challenges come from within the relationship — like differing styles of communication — and sometimes they come
from outside the relationship — like financial problems caused by job instability.
If the couple is married, one spouse's sexual needs may be stronger than the other, forcing one spouse to go
outside the relationship for sex.
A victim's lawyer can absolutely assure his or her client that information will not be
shared outside their relationship unless the client approves both the content and the context of the disclosure.
If you think you're in the right frame of mind and having a busy companion wouldn't make you
wander outside the relationship, there is no harm dating a millionaire.
Finally, if you notice yourself starting to look elsewhere, to be attracted to
people outside the relationship, you are probably feeling a significant level of distance in your relationship.
Here's an idea: how about two people who love each other and are committed to each other forget what
anyone outside the relationship thinks and make sex an expression of love to each other doing whatever makes them mutually happy, remembering that it's no one else's business what their love - making looks like.
A lack of
interests outside the relationship leads to boredom, according to the Wall Street Journal's 2012 interview with Terri Orbuch, a psychologist and research professor at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research.
These include: • Failed attempts to increase closeness or intimacy • One or both partner's difficulty expressing feelings • Betraying partner's experience of sharing feelings and not getting any response or a negative response • Betraying partner's tendency to
go outside the relationship through work, drug / alcohol use, friends, etc. • Common negative cycles that prevent closeness such as blame / withdraw, criticize / shut down, or mutual blame
The more you can deal with the
stressors outside your relationship — and bypass complain - o - logues — the more mental bandwidth you'll have to deal with any problems within your relationship.
Whenever your spouse / partner consumes most of your focus / energy (this frequently occurs during the infatuation stage of early love), you have little left over for your friends, family, interests, hobbies, work / career, etc; and inversely, when couples are too disconnected, you become vulnerable to outside influences and the danger of getting your intimacy needs
met outside the relationship is heightened.
Usually when couples are hyper - focused on (and intensely connected to) each other, some other area of their
life outside the relationship gets neglected.
Furthermore, the Bible makes clear that all s
@x outside this relationship is abhorrent in God's sight - whether that's heteros@xual or ho-mo-s@xual.