If someone is not making you feel good about yourself, its a sure sign you're in a bad relationship. Sometimes if someone keeps you from doing the things you love, its another sign. If you can't confide in this person or trust them, you should not be in a relationship with them. If you feel you can't benefit or learn from your partner, the relationship will go no where.

If you are in a bad relationship there will be a lack of trust whether it's your partner not trusting you or vice versa. People in bad relationships tend to bicker and argue daily without ever working out their problems. Simply put, bad relationships cause you to feel bad as opposed to being happy that you have a companion. Now, to figure out if you are bad at relationships think about this: Have you ever had a good/happy relationship? Are you constantly picking fights when you are in a relationship? If you've never had a good or happy relationship and you're always fighting when you're in one, you may be bad at relationships. Being bad at relationships means you are unable to enjoy companionship-you do things like look for signs of unfaithfulness and you find little things to fight about. You basically sabotage every relationship you enter in to even if it has the potential to bring you a lot of happiness.

One way you can tell whether you are in a bad relationship or if "you are bad at relationships" is by comparing your last three relationships. I am recommending you a comparison because the common factor in those three relationships is you.

There are two simple questions you should ask yourself:

Do I feel regret or do I feel frustration?

---> If you feel guilty, remorseful, or ever find yourself wishing you wouldn't have done something....you need to work on your relationship skills.

---> If you feel frustrated, helpless, or like you've hit a wall, you are in a bad relationship...or one that is quickly turning into one.

Good news is...most relationships can be mended and many things can be learned to help you become better with relationships. It's a good thing you're stopping to smell the roses. You can't fix the problem if you don't know what it is...

It could be that you are both bad with relationships and that you are in a bad relationship at the same time...my advice: fix yourself before you fix the relationship. You don't want the blind leading the blind.

Just a quick answer might be if you seem to have the same issues with different relationships maybe it is you. I have always felt that to have a successful relationship you have to be the right person which is more important than finding the right person.

There's no easy way to see it but you do sense either one. I've been in bad relationships before and at the same time I was bad at it as well.
Which makes sense when you think about it. If you are bad in relationships then great guess is that you are IN a bad relationship.

When you grow a liking for someone you have all these butterfly feelings, etc. Even elbows brushing against one another is a tingle to your nose. This is because you aren't comfortable with the person so all these sparks are flying from here and there. It's a little like brushing elbows with a friend or relative, you are comfortable around them so with flesh contacts you surely just say "oh, excuse me" but with someone you have feelings for could be like magic, like a cow just jump over the moon and you tell yourself "man, i could really live a fairy tale with this person". Once you get together and begins to be more and more comfortable you soon loosen up and what felt like explosions now feel as a regular thing. That's one bad thing, you must keep things interesting ALWAYS. Doing the same thing everyday might put out the flames between the two of you. Once that happens, things soon unfolds, irritatable actions, slacking on dates out, and what not.

Of course bad relationships and being bad IN relationships aren't all about cheating - it's even more about how you treat the person. You could have the most trusthworthy guy who promises you to never cheat and hurt you but did he promise to never delay on dinner dates, slack on spending time with you, sleeping through the movie, or sit around and watch you bickering on and on about how you would like to go out once in awhile. Not seeing eye to eye is frustrating but not being able to talk about it and letting it slip because it's less stress, isn't a great deal either. You know it's bad when there's no communication after the screaming, no hugs and kisses (just because), no greetings, no time for one another, no one will compromise their time schedule for one on one, etc.

Basically, you're IN something bad when you lack the simple things to keep a relationship strong. If you lacking them, you're bad IN the relationship and therefore, you're IN a bad relationship.

Sometimes it might not be very clear. Here are some signs that you are in a bad relationship:
- You do not love your girl/boyfriend. Or he/she does not love you back.
- You, your partner, or both are cheating on one another.
- You care more about getting in each other's pants than you do about each other's feelings.
- You two do not hold any mutual interests, hobbies, or forms of entertainment/recreation.

Here are some signs that you are bad at relationships. But have no worries! That just means that you need more experience and need to get accustomed to these types of feelings.
- Awkward silences arise almost every other minute. You easily run out of things to talk to.
- You are only dating him/her because of the way they look.
- You or your partner do not have any tolerance for a long-term obligation to one another.
- You (or your partner) are insecure about oneself that you cannot casually talk or kiss without freaking out.

Now some of these signs can appear under either topic, and I probably missed a few, but these are some general signs that things are probably not going to work about between you too. Well, at least not for long. But remember, it's normal to initially be nervous when dating someone. But if this continues for a long period of time and you really start to feel uncomfortable, it might be time to move on or take a break.