Does Nagging Make Healthy Relationships?

In most relationships, nagging is very common in women than men. It makes your partner annoyed being told things what to do over and over again.

As posted in the Wall Street Journal, "Nagging--the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed--is an issue every couple will grapple with at some point."

It was explained in the same post that it's a very bad way of communicating to your partner because nagging is as toxic as adultery which ruins a relationship. There are also men who nag on their wife but it is very seldom.

Wives are more likely to nag on their husband because they naturally feel that they control and manage everything in the household. It's also generally known that women are very sensitive even in little things and most men are in opposite.

Nagging usually starts when the woman tells his man to do something or asks a question but then his man just ignores it. As a result, the woman would have to repeat it several times and the situation becomes annoying for both sides.

Men are also to be blamed partly according to TIME page because most men respond with no clear answer or won't respond at all. There are also reasons why. It could be that he is hesitant to answer to avoid his woman to get disappointed or it could simply be that he doesn't really know the answer.

In the history of many cultures, men are the ones running things in the community and women are there to support and serve them. Men would do what they want and when they want to, so getting told to do things seems not natural for them. Many decades have passed and time has changed. Women now have the right to equality in many countries so this means all men should treat them with equal rights.

In a relationship, understanding is really important and those couples who are trying their best to avoid or minimize nagging have better chances of finding happiness in their relationship, as explained by Howard Markman, professor of psychology at the University of Denver. He also said, "Nagging is an enemy of love, if allowed to persist."

There are times that nagging is really unavoidable but whatever reason, it would be helpful if you try to understand the situation first. In that way, you can communicate better.