Depending on the age difference, kids test out their emotions on their siblings. Kids yell, hit, scream, cry, manipulate, shut down, lie, cheat, steal, and pout. They are working out how to be in relationships with themselves and the people they live with.\u00a0
These tests are pretty safe to run, because kids don\u2019t get a choice to leave or stay. So there is a lot of latitude they have with how they treat one another.\u00a0
A lot of times these \u201ctests\u201d don\u2019t go all that well. But it\u2019s ok, because kids don\u2019t really know what they are doing.\u00a0That is not the case as adults. We will run off the people who are close to us if we keep testing them.\u00a0
At some level, we all keep running these tests with those closest to us, especially in our marriage. Yes, we\u2019re adults, but we\u2019re still trying to figure out ourselves, and life.\u00a0
If we continue these behaviors in our marriages, it will lead to us treating our spouse more like a sibling than a lover.\u00a0
What tests are you running in your marriage? What questions about yourself are you trying to answer by testing your relationships?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Depending on the age difference, kids test out their emotions on their siblings. Kids yell, hit, scream, cry, manipulate, shut down, lie, cheat, steal, and pout. They are working out how to be in relationships with themselves and the people they live with.\u00a0 These tests are pretty safe to run, because kids don\u2019t get a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[146,197,250,22,249,56,228,161,248],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-couples","category-life_process","tag-adults","tag-grow","tag-grow-up","tag-kids","tag-lover","tag-maturity","tag-safety","tag-teenagers","tag-test"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n