What’s the difference between a healthy/ normal level of fighting and toxic fighting in a relationship ?

We don’t do more than the other, I say it’s an equal amount of fighting and agreeing on both sides. We do argue over a lot of ridiculous things though, and sometimes I keep it to myself because talking about it doesn’t seem to change anything. Or when I do talk about it, usually they don’t address it and just act like it never happened. Ex: Went out to dinner with their family, I was chatting with my SO and then they cut me off to talk to their sibling and never came back to me to continue our conversation. So I sat there not saying anything, they then realized something was up and asked what was wrong. I tell them after they asked a few times and I brushed it off. They just apologized and that was the end of it. Wasn’t the first time it’s happened either

When my SO gets upset with me I don’t handle it any better either, but I have been trying to change recently, though I’m not seeing it happen on their half.

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