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Managing Relationships Can Bring on Some Difficulties for High Achieving Women

It’s true what they say, relationships are hard.

For high-achieving women, they can sometimes feel even more challenging at times.

High-achieving women experience their own challenges and then adding another person to the mix has the potential to increase stress, anxiety, and frustration.

Is this sounding all too familiar?

Keep reading to learn 4 challenges high-achieving women experience in relationships.

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Keep reading to learn 4 challenges high-achieving women face in their relationships.

4 Challenges High-Achieving Women Encounter in Relationships

Relationships aren’t easy. A high-achiever may often experience some of these common challenges within their relationships.

There is a lot that goes into maintaining a healthy relationship including these resources, time, energy, and effort. The demands of being a high-achiever can leave you feeling depleted of these resources when it comes to…

Challenge #1: Poor Motivation

If your partner does not seem to be as motivated as you are this can lead to feelings of frustration and even loneliness.

You perform, achieve, and execute. When you are constantly working towards something you feel a sense of pride and purpose.

It’s important to understand this may look different for your partner.

Challenge #2: Feeling Overwhelmed

There is a lot that goes into maintaining a healthy relationship such as time, energy, and effort. The demands of being a high-achiever can leave you feeling depleted and overwhelmed because there seems to always be so much on your plate.

Burnout in another area of your life can contribute to this making it more difficult to find joy in engaging in your relationships and leaving little to nothing for any partner or friends.

Challenge #3: Work Comes First

There are a few driving factors that could be showing up here but no matter the reason, the truth is if you constantly are making work the top priority ahead of everything else, eventually you will be left with just work, if you haven’t already reached burnout mode.

Fear of failure, perfectionism, constant self-doubt from imposter syndrome, or having a codependent relationship with your job or business are often culprits to the behavior.

Challenge #4: Lack of Fulfillment

High achievers typically have a high drive for motivation or forward progress.

While it’s important to slow down and enjoy the process, it can be challenging for high-achievers if there isn’t any growth happening. This may be in themselves, their partner, or the relationship as a whole.

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High-achieving women often feel lonely and unfulfilled in their relationships and it can put a major strain on the relationship.

It’s important to be able to recognize what is happening in the relationship so that you can take steps to communicate and address what is happening for you individually and as a unit.