They Start Acting Mean Towards You
This one is the very opposite from the previous sign – imagine that all of a sudden your partner has become meaner toward you. Even the smallest mistake or remark annoys them. Nothing you ever do is good enough for them.
The dinner you made never tastes good, and anything you say is dismissed as being stupid. In some cases the problem might escalate, your partner might start yelling at you or in the worst case, they might lift a hand to you and inflict physical harm.
According to psychologists, this type of behavior is due to abusive relationships a person has suffered in their childhood. If someone does something like that there is a very high probability that the parents they grew up with were violent towards that person. It is a vicious cycle.
Later in life, they might do those same things to their partner. Even the people who are on the receiving end stay in these relationships because the abuse they suffered makes them believe that being harmed by your partner is “love.”