Signs Your Turbulent Relationship Won’t Last, Backed by Science

“There are many paths to a fairytale ending… Blocking, unfollowing, muting, and unfriending also lead to ‘Happily ever after’.” -Steve Maraboli

Colleen Murphy
4 min readOct 31, 2021
Photo by Richard R. Schünemann on Unsplash

Have you ever experienced turbulence on a flight? I hate that feeling. My stomach drops. I grip the armrests. I frantically look for the flight attendants to search their faces, looking for signs of alarm.

And every time, they look calm. No big deal. And I think, ok it must be fine.

Then I saw the movie Sully. The one with Tom Hanks playing the heroic captain who piloted a plane that crashed into the Hudson. Great movie.

That plane was going down. The flight attendants were calm. But they told everyone to brace. The buckled themselves in. Head down between your legs. They chanted in unison: brace, brace, brace, head down, stay down.

I felt shivers up my spine when I heard them speak to the passengers, preparing them for impact.

And I thought, that is what it looks like. Real danger.

Knowing what is coming next, how to handle the turbulence in life is what we all need. So I got to thinking, what if we got the same warning sign in a relationship? What…

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Colleen Murphy
Colleen Murphy

Written by Colleen Murphy

Writing about the beautiful journey of life and love. We are all figuring this out together

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