Collaborative Post¦ It’s a sad fact of life that most relationships don’t work out. But what’s worse is that many of us don’t understand why.
Why was it, for instance, that your last romantic relationship failed?
Why do you always get into fights with your lover?
And why do we think everything is going okay, only to find out in a single brutal moment that everything we believed about the person we’re with isn’t true?
There are, of course, many reasons why our relationships don’t work out the way that we want them to. But part of the explanation has to do with our conflation of what we’re going to call “lovers” and “partners.”