Romantic relationships can be difficult to maintain because they possess more intimacy than any other relationship, says life coach Kali Rogers. The amount of closeness — emotional, physical, spiritual, and even mental — that is in a relationship is overwhelming to handle at times.

Is a relationship supposed to be hard?

Relationships are hard work. They take compromise and sometimes you want to slap the other person. It means youre constantly working on the relationship and working out problems. But its exhausting to fight all the time and its exhausting to feel like youre constantly building the relationship up again and again.