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SAM MORSHEAD: Twenty-six of the NSSCL’s 46 member clubs have signed a petition calling for a vote on whether or not to suspend Burslem from involvement in the league while court remains a possibility
A Midlands club could be thrown out of their league unless they stand down plans to take legal action over a massive points deduction.
Burslem were docked 71 points by the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire League last year after being told they had incorrectly registered a player, a charge they hotly contest, citing discrepancies in the guidance offered during the registration process.
The individual at the centre of the controversy, the former Leicestershire and Glamorgan allrounder Jim Allenby, is poised to take the NSSCL and a handful of administrators to court as a result of the decision.
Allenby - an Australia-born UK resident and British passport holder who under ECB rules is eligible to represent England - was told that he should have been registered as a category 3 “overseas” player after failing to spend at least 210 days of the year up to March 31, 2018 in the country.
Burslem appealed the initial ruling but the verdict was upheld.
Allenby, whose contract with Burslem has since been cancelled, has taken legal advice on the matter and his lawyer, Doug Frame, began building a discrimination case in the autumn.
The Cricketer understands Burslem had placed a deadline of February 21 for the matter to be resolved before serving formal notice of legal proceedings, but they could find themselves expelled from the league before that date even comes to pass.
The final table of the NSSCPL, following the points deductions
Twenty-six of the NSSCL’s 46 member clubs have signed a petition calling for a vote on whether or not to suspend Burslem from involvement in the league while court remains a possibility. Competition rules state that a majority is required to trigger a vote, which has now been scheduled to take place at a Special General Meeting of the league on February 20 at Newcastle & Hartshill Cricket Club.
Each of the clubs, with the exception of Burslem - who will not be given the opportunity to address the meeting to make their case, will be asked to vote "yes" or "no" to the question: "In view of the threat of legal proceedings against the league executive officers and other named individuals, does your club vote to suspend Burslem CC from all league activities with immediate effect, and until such time as these threatened proceedings are concluded".
The motion was proposed at a January 17 meeting of 31 member clubs by Hem Heath CC chairman Dean Hodson.
Hem Heath also suffered a points penalty in 2018 following the NSSCL’s controversial clampdown on player registrations - there have been close to a dozen such instances in recent years - but he feels the league needs to be afforded protection against the possibility of legal action.
"I’m doing this for the passion of the North Staffs and South Cheshire League, as are all the other clubs," he told The Cricketer.
"A lot of clubs have lost a lot of points. We ourselves in the past have lost 71 points, and we were angry about it, but we never sued the league because we felt hard done by, when we knew the rules.
"Our league rules are clear. We got it wrong, our registration chap got it wrong.
"Everyone is sick of hearing what Burslem Cricket Club are going on about now when a lot of other clubs have fallen foul of points losses and never ever gone and sued their own league and the clubs within the league.
"The clubs will have to play in there’s a shortfall if they win a case.
"We are an open league, each club can do what they like, but it is the clubs’ responsibility to check what category of player they are."
Hodson says a precedent needs to be established in cases of grievance such as Burslem's, and he is worried that there will be many fewer willing volunteers for league panels, including disciplinary groups, should there be a real threat of legal action.
"They should be taking it up with the ECB and not issuing private writs to individuals who sit on disciplinary panels and go by our league rules, when they can do nothing about what the ECB status is," he said.
"Every club has a right to do what they feel is right but they would know that if they decided to do this that all clubs would get together, call an SGM and they would be put on gardening leave until everything is sorted, if that’s the way they feel they want to go down.
"It’s not just about Burslem Cricket Club, it’s about future cricket clubs doing this."
Another club in the North Staffs and South Cheshire Premier League, Elworth, were docked 241 points. They too appealed unsuccessfully and are currently waiting on the ECB to give the case further consideration.
Burslem, meanwhile, run the very real risk of having no league cricket in 2019, should legal proceedings be initiated and clubs vote in favour of their suspension from the league, as is expected.

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Lizzo's that chick, 100 percent. She's been that chick. But she's now really that legendary chick with the reveal that her epic self-love anthem "Truth Hurts" has landed her a special achievement as revealed by Billboard: after four weeks on top of the Hot 100 Chart, the record has become the longest-leading rap No. 1 song to not have any features. Lil Nas X isn't the only one breaking Billboard records in 2019. Lizzo is snapping them in half, equally as hard, holding their pulsating hearts between her teeth.
Lizzo, understandably excited to snag a feat before artists like Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, took to Twitter for a sincere message to fans about the perseverance it takes to achieve something of this magnitude. "Truth Hurts is officially the longest solo female rap #1 in history," she wrote. "I fell in love with music when I was 9 years old... I had no idea our love affair would go this far. Good to know it was all worth it. Don't run away from what your heart wants. Follow that bitch to ur destiny." She posted it with an adorable childhood picture that was meshed together with her holding a picture of the Hot 100 chart. It was as if to say that her childhood self would be more than proud.
Check out Lizzo's social media acceptance speech up above.

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text: Endeavor to Buy Nine Minor League Teams by Ben Clemens December 10, 2021 Major league baseball remains in a holding pattern. There’s a lockout, the two sides are intermittently negotiating, and nothing can happen until they reach an agreement. That’s major league baseball, though, not all of baseball, and some interesting economic shenanigans are afoot across the minors. As Baseball America’s J.J. Cooper reported last week, Endeavor Group Holdings is purchasing nine minor league baseball teams: the Gwinnett Stripers, Mississippi Braves, Rome Braves, Augusta GreenJackets, Iowa Cubs, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, Memphis Redbirds, Hudson Valley Renegades, and San Jose Giants; The Athletic’s Daniel Kaplan and Evan Drellich first reported the possibility in October. These transactions aren’t yet final, but they’re very likely to be approved, which will make Endeavor (via new subsidiary Diamond Baseball Holdings) the largest MiLB owner. Endeavor, a publicly traded company partially owned by private equity group Silver Lake Partners, is already in the business of sports, though not specifically minor league baseball. They own a little bit of everything, from agencies to sports organizations. Their marquee holding is the UFC, but seriously, the list is endless: Professional Bull Riding, Euroleague Basketball, the IMG Academy that turns out baseball prospects, the Madrid Open, the William Morris Endeavor agency. It’s a broad portfolio, much of which is made up of directly-sports-related operations; an arm of the company also sells media rights for the Olympics. What would a diversified sports holding company like that want with minor league baseball teams? In a word: money. I don’t want to be overly reductive here, but that’s mostly why companies buy things. In the past, plenty of minor league team sales have been driven by non-monetary reasoning. In 2017, for instance, the Brewers bought the Carolina Mudcats, an A-Ball team in the Carolina league. It wasn’t because they saw untapped profit potential in Zebulon, North Carolina. Rather, they wanted to avoid the affiliate shuffle that frequently saw minor league teams switch major league parents; the Braves owned three of the four Atlanta affiliates Endeavor is purchasing for similar reasons. That’s no longer an issue after 2020’s minor league restructuring, and Endeavor isn’t a major league team anyway. This purchase is all about dollars. Given that, what should we expect from it? From an on-field perspective, almost nothing will change, and that’s by design. The Professional Development League system, in addition to contracting more than 40 teams, standardized the relationship between minor and major league teams, putting guidelines around facilities and leaving the on-field personnel and player development operation in the hands of the parent clubs. But let’s be honest, that’s the boring part of a minor league team. Endeavor bought the fun parts: the crazy promotions, the wacky marketing, and the lucrative merchandise. In the 8-K form Endeavor submitted in support of its purchases, it listed a wide range of value-adding propositions: “(Diamond Baseball Holdings) will support its clubs with ticket sales, partnerships, naming rights, food & beverage, merchandise, content strategy, collectibles/authentics/NFTs and media rights, tapping into the broader Endeavor network… for expertise across the various disciplines.” That’s a heaping helping of corporate euphemisms, but the general idea is that Endeavor is going to run the business side of its minor league portfolio. The game on the field won’t change, and given the new license, the players will have uniform playing conditions. Endeavor will try to come up with new window dressing to monetize the games. There’s a ghoulish part to all of it, naturally. Private equity firms love to acquire and pick apart companies. It’s more efficient to spend $20 dollars and make $50 than it is to spend $100 and make $120, so slashing away huge parts of a going concern is a popular way to increase profits. I don’t think that will be the central story here, though. That might be a bonus for Endeavor, but it’s not a key feature of the company’s existing holdings. You don’t buy the UFC and look to reduce its scope, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be cuts. Endeavor got rid of roughly 15% of the UFC workforce when it first acquired the brand, though it has continued to grow in the years since. I’m not saying these are benevolent corporate overlords, but neither do they appear to be the cartoonish type of PE villain that buys a company and literally sells the factory for spare parts. What kind of money is involved here? It’s hard to say, because minor league sale prices are rarely disclosed. We can approximate, though. First, Forbes occasionally creates a list of minor league franchise values. The last one, which was released in 2016, valued the Sacramento River Cats first among all minor league franchises, at $49 million. As an added bonus, Forbes collected some 2016 sale data. The bands were wide, but franchises sold for anywhere between $10 million (A-ball) and $40 million (also A-ball, but the Dayton Dragons are a prized franchise). Double- and Triple-A teams tipped the scales at anywhere from $20 million to $35 million. Baseball America reported that Endeavor’s purchases were expected to be above pre-existing market rates, while some other minor league sales this offseason have been reported as roughly flat compared to pre-pandemic levels. That’s a good sign for the health of the minors as a whole, or at least, for the teams that secured PDL licenses in the 2020 reshuffle. All told, I estimate that Endeavor is spending something on the order of $200 million to acquire these franchises. This will likely mean taking on some debt. Endeavor currently carries roughly $5 billion in long-term debt, a significant portion of their balance sheet. They’re built to expand quickly by taking on debt; their revenue was growing by roughly 20% per year before 2020 threw a wrench in the works, fueled by acquisitions. The pandemic dealt their business a huge blow — live sporting events weren’t exactly in vogue in 2020 — but they weathered the storm and used the proceeds of a 2021 IPO to consolidate their control of UFC. Their recent earnings suggest a return to their earlier rapid growth might be imminent. That likely means there will be more purchases to come, and indeed, sources told Baseball America that Endeavor might eventually purchase 35-40 affiliated minor league teams. That rapid growth isn’t without pitfalls. It’s all well and good when you’re buying new things and making the pie bigger, but at some point, the acquisition-fueled growth part stops, and the revenue increase you’re aiming for has to come from increasing the efficiency of existing businesses – or perhaps spinning them off if they aren’t working out for you. Throwing the typically sleepy world of minor league baseball into the world of acquisition-driven financial growth doesn’t sound like a happy marriage. But perhaps they’ll find the hoped-for revenue increase by improving existing operations. There are real efficiency gains to be had here. It might sound bland, but just combining minor league ticket sales departments would be a meaningful gain. Some of it is a personnel issue – one person to answer the phones costs less than two – but that’s small potatoes. Sharing a ticketing website and software? Replicating promotions across different teams? That will all strip down costs without hurting revenue. I reached out to J.C. Bradbury, an economics professor at Kennesaw State University who researches the economics of sports. Bradbury sees these economies of scale as key to the deal. “You could develop a good website and share it across all your franchises like MLB does,” he told me. “You could hire one general manager to run five teams.” In addition to pure numerical advantages of scale, Bradbury noted that owning so many teams would make developing new promotions more efficient, as good ideas could be replicated across teams, while bad ideas are quickly discarded. Broadcasting rights don’t make up a huge part of the minor league pie, but Endeavor listed them as part of what they’re hoping to make money on. Merchandise might be a bigger part of the plan. In 2019, minor league teams combined to make $85.7 million in merchandise sales. None of the nine teams Endeavor is acquiring were among the top 25 clubs in sales (individual revenues aren’t reported, but the top 25 is). Bradbury suggested that a group of teams might be able to secure a combined merchandise and uniform deal with better terms than individual teams achieve. If they’re able to both expand the pie and increase their share of it, that could be a meaningful source of income, though again, given murky data, it’s hard to say just how much it would move the needle. Using the venues to host events when the teams aren’t playing is a natural fit given Endeavor’s other holdings. NFTs, which they mentioned in their 8-K, are less so. There’s an air of “just name some things that could make money” to that filing, which makes sense: it’s more of an aspirational statement than a marching plan. How likely is this all to work out? It’s far too soon to say. Predicting how a basket of minor league teams will do when it comes to off-field revenue generation is beyond the scope of this article, never mind how they’ll mesh with a multi-billion-dollar corporation. Given Endeavor’s plans, the success of this venture will say a lot about how the minor league game experience looks for years to come. In a perfect world, that doesn’t have to mean a dull corporate makeover of the wacky minor league landscape. The Savannah Bananas, an independent team, have become wildly successful – and no doubt profitable – by leaning into the silliness, both on the field and off. PDL teams can’t copy Banana Ball, but the promotions and entertainment that come with the game are open for innovation. The highest-earning Triple-A franchises were clearing more than $5 million in annual profit before the pandemic, and if Endeavor thinks it can match or exceed that number, their franchises might be able to combine good business with affordable entertainment. Bradbury thinks that this potential for increased profit drove Endeavor to buy in bulk. “If they show that minor league franchises are undervalued, the price of a team might go up,” he noted. By buying as many teams upfront as possible, there’s less chance that Endeavor will need to chase higher valuations as they expand their minor league empire to its fully-planned scope. Regardless of what happens, there will be some individual upheaval. For now, Endeavor reportedly plans to keep most of the staff of the teams they’re purchasing, but in the long run, that’s unlikely to be the case. That doesn’t mean every departure will be due to new management, but let’s be honest: one way to boost profit is by having fewer people do the same amount of work, and that will almost certainly happen here. Centralizing ticket sales might save money, but it also means laying off the now-extraneous ticket salespeople. Even beyond that, minor league teams and their local communities don’t always live in harmony, and centralizing ownership is unlikely to change that dynamic. Bradbury noted that the Gwinnett Stripers have the ability to opt out of their lease after the 2023 season. That sets up a potential conflict between team and city, assuming that the conditions for the opt out are met. Endeavor, insulated somewhat from local community backlash by the scope of their operations, might be more willing to drive a hard bargain than the Atlanta Braves, the previous owners, would have been. In the broad scope of baseball, this move isn’t seismic. If you don’t go to minor league games in person, you might never notice the difference in ownership. It’s still a meaningful shift in the economics of the sport though, and in this winter of economic discontent, every change in the future financial landscape of baseball is worth examining.

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Multi-Platinum entertainer Jason Aldean has learned a thing or two about the music he has made over the past 16 years.
Ryan Hurd will release his debut album “Pelago” on October 15th 2021. New track, “June, July, August,” is available now.
New Male Artist of the Year Jimmie Allen’s dynamic new album Bettie James Gold Edition is available everywhere now via BBR Music Group
Current ACM New Male Artist of the Year Jimmie Allen will release his new album Bettie James Gold Edition on June 25th, 2021
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The research activities in the service, directed at first on the morphology of the navicular bone of the horse gradually extended to the locomotor system of the horse in general then to that of the dog. The inter-phalangeal joints of the horse (within the framework of a study on the juvenile degenerative arthropathy), the menisci of the horse and the dog, and finally tendons were studied. Collaborations with the CIRALE were born within the framework of a study whose purpose was to estimate, on the histological plan, the tolerance and the effect of bisphosphonates administered by intra-articular way at the level of the fetlock joint and recently, with the aim of testing a new substance to accelerate and to improve the tendinous healing after surgical induction of one experimental tendonitis. With the development of new techniques of medical imaging, it seemed that anatomical and histological fundamental studies bring precision as for the anomalies or artefacts observed in imaging, and which are with difficulty interpretable on the clinical plan. The LSB of the horse is studied in this context. The other research projects of the service concern the neuro-anatomy with the study of the embryonic development of the encephalon of the sheep.
Prize-winner of the EFFEM price on 1988 for the study entitled "physiological Effects of various types of stress to the dog before and after beta adrenergic blocking by the carazolol.
Most representative publications
- GABRIEL A., et al. Morphometrical study of the equine navicular bone. Variations with breed and types of horses and influence of exercise. Journal of Anatomy. 1998, 193, part 4, 535-549 http://hdl.handle.net/2268/8740
- GABRIEL A., et al. Morphometrical study of the equine navicular bone: age-related changes and influence of exercise. Vet. Res. Commun. 1999, 23, 15-40 http://hdl.handle.net/2268/57754
- Jacqmot O., Snaps F., Maquet N., Heinen M.P., GABRIEL A. Arterial head vascularization cartographies of normal metencephalic dogs using magnetic resoannce angiography. Anat. Rec. 2011, 294, 1834-1841 http://hdl.handle.net/2268/103111
- Khir Shikh Alsook M., Antoine N., Piret J., Moula N., Busoni V., Denoix J-M., GABRIEL A. Morphometric analyses of the body and the branches of the normal third interosseous muscle (suspensory ligament) in Standardbreds. Anatomia, Histologia, Embryologia. Volume 42, Issue 6, December 2013, Pages: 461–470 http://hdl.handle.net/2268/148954
- Salouci M., Antoine N., Khir Shikh Al Sook M., Piret J., Mignon Y., Kirschvink N., GABRIEL A. Developmental profiles of GFAP-positive astrocytes in sheep cerebellum. Vet Res Commun. 2014 Dec;38(4):279-85 http://hdl.handle.net/2268/171889
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Rob Resnick and vocalist Cal Shapiro of Timeflies show off their freestyle skills at 99.7 [NOW!] in San Francisco on April 10, 2014.
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any suggestions for Sweet 16 Celebration12-15 Girlssomething pretty -with understandable foodBeauty & essex sounds great not sure about the menu.
This comes up quite often. I remember some recent threads. Did you do a search for "Sweet 16" in the box in the upper right corner?
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By: Adam Hamilton, Zeal Research - 27 September, 2019
The bottom line is gold stocks’ setup leading into their October seasonal plunge is quite bearish this year. They recently enjoyed a major upleg, which left this sector very overbought technically and laden with greedy enthusiasm. That makes a healthy rebalancing correction necessary. Gold stocks have avoided that so far, generally consolidating high. But very-weak seasonals will add to mounting downside pressure.
When gold itself rolls over, it will drag the gold stocks with it. It has been very overbought heading into its own seasonal drop between its autumn and winter rallies. And with gold-futures speculators’ bets remaining excessively bullish, they have little capital firepower left to buy more but vast room to sell. That selling will ignite and likely snowball on the right catalyst, like positive US-China trade-war talk or Fed hawkishness. Full Story
The interplay between gold and silver is a critical component to understanding what is out ahead; to understanding whether long-term Treasury yields will rise and if they rise, whether it will be due to inflationary pressures. It is a critical component to understanding whether cyclical commodities and other aspects of a greater inflation/reflation trade will finally break existing downtrends. See… Full Story
By: Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks - 27 September, 2019
Notice how the stochastic ‘overbought’ peaks recorded at the bottom of the chart rose in tandem with the Dow’s price peaks. Together they effect a series of non-diverging tops, a formation that usually implies that the trend will continue. Now notice how, when the stochastic peaks diverged relative to corresponding price peaks, the corrective moves that followed were steep and painful. Full Story
As the U.S. $100 bill transitioned from a Gold Certificate to a Federal Reserve Note now backed by $22+ trillion in debt, the look of the currency resembles more and more like Monopoly Money than real money. If you look at the little “yellow 100 numbers” printed all over the place to the left of Benjamin Franklin’s face, it almost looks like a child stamped those.
Over the past two decades, the percentage of $100 bills to the total Currency In Circulation has risen from 65% in 1998 to 80% in 2018. Which means, 80% of the value of Currency In Circulation out in the world is held in $100 bills. Full Story
I do not think Trump will be impeached. These kind of news will also be bullish for gold and silver. Investment demand will rise over the coming weeks and coming quarters. Economic data releases are not having any impact on bullion or the US dollar Index. Full Story
By: Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates - 24 September, 2019
Goldman Sachs analysts have predicted that a major rise in volatility lies ahead for the stock market in October.
Gold has a long history of performing quite well in most of these situations.
Some gold investors tell me that they are worried about a repeat of 2008 for gold stocks. I have no concerns because in 2008 most money managers had never heard of QE or negative rates.
Now, they know the Fed stands ready to whatever it takes to provide liquidity to markets, regardless of how inflationary that might be.
Trump also stands ready to act. He’s the most pro-markets president in a long time, and arguably in the history of America. Unlike Obama, he’s not afraid to use the power that he has, and to use it pre-emptively.
This year marked the 30th anniversary of the Denver Gold Forum (DGF), the world’s most prestigious precious metal equities investment conference. The invitation-only event, held last week, was attended by an incredible seven-eighths of the world’s publicly traded gold and silver companies by production, as well as leading metals and mining executives, money managers, analysts and investors.
Much has changed in the precious metals and mining industry in the past 30 years, as we were all reminded by my longtime friend and mentor Pierre Lassonde. Pierre, as many of you know, is the legendary co-founder, along with Seymour Schulich, of Franco-Nevada, the first publicly-traded gold royalty company. What you may not know is that Pierre is also one of Canada’s most gracious philanthropists and currently serves as the chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts Board of Directors.
According to Pierre, annual global gold demand has exploded in the years since the first DGF was held. Demand grew more than fivefold, from a value of $32 billion in 1989 to $177 billion in 2018. Full Story
Gold, silver and the gold stocks as represented by the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) and the TSX Gold Index (TGD) enjoyed an up week. Gold gained 1% and silver was up 1.6%, while the HUI jumped 6.9% and the TGD gained 6.5%. Despite the positive week, we are not enamoured with what appears as a potential head and shoulders top forming on the gold chart. Volume tailed off this week even as the market rose. Not necessarily a positive sign. The US$ Index gained a small 0.3% this past week, but it too looks toppy. Normally that would be positive for gold but with a negative pattern forming on the gold chart we are somewhat suspicious as to what actually might happen. The US$ Index could still move higher to unfulfilled targets up around 100.80. Gold breaks under $1,490 and has potential targets down to $1,415/$1,420. There is some interim support at $1,480 down to $1,470. Below that the targets should be achieved. Full Story
By: Avi Gilburt, Elliott Wave Trader - 23 September, 2019
The pundits and the media were debating for several weeks leading up to the last Fed meeting about what the Fed was going to do and the effect they thought it would have on the market. And, it amazes that the great majority of the market does not realize how much of a waste of time these debates really are.
But, as I often note, many market participants and analysts are simply not burdened by the facts. If they really would review the facts of market history, they would learn that there is no one that can control the market. PERIOD. Full Story
Bloomberg’s Liz Capo McCormick writes that there is not enough cash on hand at major Wall Street firms to meet the funding demands of a market trying to absorb record Treasury bond sales needed to cover U.S. budget deficits. She adds that there isn’t enough liquidity and that there are deep structural problems in the money markets. The big catalyst causing the squeeze in repo liquidity is the big swath of new Treasury debt that settled into the marketplace just as cash left due to quarterly tax payments to the government. Full Story
I would like to start out by looking at the old ratio combo chart that has the GOLD:XAU ratio chart on top with the XAU on the bottom. I’m not going to go over all the details the ratio combo chart has, only to emphasize the 20 year 6 point parabolic arc which shows how gold had been outperforming the XAU until the small double top at 24.33 in late 2015. When the parabolic arc was broken to the downside in early 2016 that strongly suggested that it was going to be the XAU’s turn to outperform gold.
Initially, you can see the sharp vertical move down that broke the back of gold outperforming the XAU at 12.50. From the low in early 2016 the ratio had been building out the blue rising flag until the bottom rail was broken to the downside just 3 months ago in June. Since then the ratio has been in backtest mode to the bottom rail of the rising flag which looks like it could be coming to an end which shows up better on the weekly chart we’ll look at later.
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Most people have a sense of what a toxic or dysfunctional relationship feels like. But, sometimes it can be challenging to recognize those signs when they surface in your relationship for the first time, even for couples who have already been in romantic relationships in the past.
In any relationship, there are two main components, physical attraction, and chemistry. But, a romantic relationship is more than just physical attraction and chemistry. Real and sincere relationships inspire joy and are everlasting. In a committed relationship, there is a commitment to the relationship, good communication, mutual consensus and understanding and shared goals. It doesn’t matter if there is a lot of chemistry if these four crucial elements are missing, having a healthy and satisfying relationship will be difficult for you. Dissatisfaction in the relationship will result in conflicts and struggles, which will ultimately make the relationship toxic and will make you unhappy.
Here are three crucial signs of a toxic relationship and if you see anyone of these or all of these signs, it’s time for you to get out of the relationship:
- You always try to please your partner to feel loved
Ask yourself are you trying too hard to get your partner to love you, give you attention, acceptance, and approval? This is pretty common in us as since our childhoods we have been told by others to please our parents, siblings, and other people to earn these kinds of “rewards.” Eventually, you become a “pleaser,” and you start to please your spouse so that you can feel being loved or desired. Making someone happy at the expense of yourself will cost you dearly in the long run. This type of attitude will expose your low self-esteem, low confidence, insecurities, and your fear of losing the relationship. Becoming a “pleaser” in the relationships is very exhausting both physically and emotionally. What’s more damaging is that your spouse will have control and power over you in the relationship. Also, it’s a sure way for you to lose your personality and identity in the relationship because you will soon see that you can’t make yourself or your partner happy. This will drain you physically and emotionally and will build up anger and resentment within you.
- You feel lonely and lost in the relationship
Almost all of us at some point felt alone in our existing and past relationships. It’s an indication that you don’t feel desired or included in the relationship. Your significant is doing his or her thing and you yours, they work for long hours, they attend recreational and social activities without you, etc. Love is all about inclusion. So, if you are noticing more exclusion than inclusion from your girlfriend or boyfriend, it means that they don’t like you enough or stopped loving you. If this is the situation in your relationship, its big red flag and it points that you are in a toxic relationship.
- You lose yourself
If you are the “pleaser” in the relationship, and your partner is someone who is selfish and doesn’t include you in his or her life, it will cause you to lose yourself in the relationship. Slowly, consciously or unconsciously, you will sacrifice your own happiness, self-worth, and freedom to keep the relationship intact. It points that you are in a toxic relationship, and the best thing you can do is to get out of it.

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