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When you’re in a passive relationship, you may find yourself deferring to your partner and not expressing your own needs. You may think that you’re keeping the peace and making your partner happy, but in the end, passivity in relationships can lead to unhappiness and conflict. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>What is passiveness in a relationship?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

If you’re in a passive relationship, you’re likely to sacrifice your own needs for your partner regularly. It is natural for partners to sometimes place the other person’s needs ahead of their own in any<\/span> long-term relationship<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you’re passive in relationships, you will find yourself constantly thinking of your partner before yourself, to the point that your own needs fall by the wayside.<\/span><\/p>\n

A <\/span>passive relationship definition<\/span><\/a> might be as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

A relationship where a person focuses entirely on their partner represses their own needs, cannot express their emotions and becomes submissive and helpless.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Why am I so passive in relationships?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

If you’re the passive partner in a relationship, you may be wondering about the reason behind your behavior. Sometimes, passiveness or passivity results from<\/span> low self-esteem<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you do not have healthy self-esteem levels, you may feel that you do not deserve to have your needs met within a relationship. Instead of speaking up for what you need, you defer to your partner.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re passive in a relationship, you may also develop codependent tendencies. A <\/span>codependent partner<\/span><\/a> can become passive because their entire sense of self-worth is centered on making significant sacrifices to make their partner happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re codependent, all of your time and energy will be focused on <\/span>making your partner happy<\/span><\/a>, to the extent that you ignore your own needs because you derive a sense of purpose out of meeting their every need.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may have been taught to be passive in relationships due to your childhood. Perhaps one of your parents was hard to please or punish you for expressing your emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

You may have been made to feel like you were a bother for asserting yourself or that your purpose was to meet all of your parent’s demands. If this is the case, you can quickly grow up in a passive relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of the cause of the passivity, when a person shows passivity in relationships, there is often an underlying belief that the person is not good enough to have their needs met or does not deserve to have their opinions heard. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, they end up sacrificing their well-being to keep their partner happy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch this video to identify the clear signs of low self esteem:<\/b><\/p>\n