When you think about your relationship overall, do you feel like your partner is trustworthy and dependable? Has your partner consistently shown you through their actions that no matter what happens they have your back? This may seem like a no-brainer for most people, but in an unhealthy relationship a person’s decision making may be clouded by gaslighting and emotional abuse. RELATED: 5 Sneaky Behaviors That Are Actually Unhealthy 2. Spencer Coursen, security expert from the Coursen Security Group says, “It’s the abuser saying, ‘How much control do I have over you? If I say, ‘do this,’ are you going to do it?”. Experts say demanding explicit photos is a power play unhealthy partners use to see how much control they have over their partners. When someone is manipulative, they aren’t respecting your boundaries which is a common theme in unhealthy relationships. Like it or not, sexting (sending or receiving nudes) is a form of sexual activity that should never involve pressure or guilting of any form. Is your partner working overtime to convince you to send nudes? Uh oh, red flag. “We aren’t having sex, so why can’t you send them?” Is Your Partner Being Manipulative about it? So before you press send, here are 6 things to consider. Even on Snapchat where photos disappear in 24 hours, there is no guarantee someone won’t screenshot your pic or take a picture using someone else’s phone. The internet is forever and there are real-life consequences for the things you share online. “It’s this false sense of security that gets people into trouble when they sext,” she continued.Įven if you’re sure your partner won’t share your nudes and confident they won’t end up on a weird internet chat room (which are all legitimate concerns), once a photo is shared it never really disappears. And although a sext may seem private, it’s just as easy to forward a sext as it is to send,” relationship expert, Carol Allen told the Huffington Post. “Phones feel more intimate than computers. While it’s no secret that people have been exchanging risqué messages since the dawn of the internet, most people don’t anticipate how nudes can dramatically shift the power dynamics of a relationship, almost overnight. According to a survey by MTV-AP, 1 in 3 young people (14-24) have engaged in some form of sexting, either sending or receiving nude photos, with another person. If you picked option C, you’re not alone.
Somewhere between the barrage of emoji hearts and “LOLs” things take a steamy turn when your S.O. Imagine this: You’re exchanging flirty texts with your S.O. Written by Writers Corp member Rachel Murphy
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