Emma Chamberlain

I have a tendency to get into a relationship and it just becomes my life.

I'm just going to get all the joy and all the fulfillment out of this.

Why would I go elsewhere?

This seems to be such a valid source of all of these things.

Why would I work on developing my friendships further?

Why have hobbies?

Why focus on my career when I could get a kiss and a cuddle from my boyfriend?

It's not good.

Let me tell you, this is the worst thing you can do in a relationship for many reasons.

Not just because it makes your mood dependent on your partner, but also because it can oftentimes cause other issues.

Your partner can start to pick up on it and feel kind of smothered or feel like there's a codependency and then that can kind of end up making the partner want to create space and push away.

It also can cause expectations on your end because you're like, you can start to expect them to

to provide you with unrealistic levels of fulfillment and joy, if they are the center of your universe, you can expect a lot out of them.

And we're dealing with human beings here.

Chances are they're not gonna live up to your expectations.

But let's zoom back into our issue at hand here.

Mood dependency on partner.

Okay.

Let's go back to what I was saying.

Okay.