3 Signs You’re in a Karmic Relationship

It feels a lot like love, but it’s something else

1. You Feel You’ve Known Them Before

A karmic relationship is an agreement made between two souls before reincarnating on earth. It is a relationship that teaches you important lessons you failed to learn in a previous lifetime.

From a spiritual perspective, karmics are teachers and helpers. Two souls recognize that there are lessons they still need to learn, so they recruit each other to help.

Because your soul knows this person, when you see them, they’ll feel familiar. It’ll feel as if you’ve met them before, but you won’t be able to remember where. All you’ll know is that you need them desperately.

You’ll feel attracted to them and the connection between the both of you will be instant and there will be sparks everywhere.

You’ll drop everything you’re doing to follow them wherever they go. And you will not want to let them go because you’ll get addicted to them.

Deep down, you’ll know this person is not good for you; you’ll know they’re trouble, yet you’ll keep following them thinking you can’t live without them. But you will, because a karmic relationship does not last.

They're not meant to work out.

2. There Are Many Red Flags

Karmic relationships come to help you break free from toxic cycles and patterns carried over from past lifetimes. It shows you all that can be wrong with a relationship, so you can steer clear of such relationship patterns in the future.

It teaches you the most significant lessons in love. It also presents opportunities to learn important things about yourself so you can master and love yourself.

When you ignore red flags simply because you think you love a person, that isn’t self-love. When you love others more than you love yourself, a karmic relationship will show you that.

In a karmic relationship, you’ll notice a lot of red flags. You’ll ignore it all and make excuses for the bad behavior because you’re yet to learn to love yourself. You’ll make excuses for their behaviour because the attraction is so strong and you’ll assume you’re meant to be, but you’re not.

You’ll think you’re in love when you’re just addicted.

You will stay even though they’ll show you who they are, but you won’t believe them. This person will keep doing things to trigger you, and triggers are often messengers to let you know of the things you need to work on. They will bring all your fears to the surface and shine a light on your shadows. This will force you to face the things you’ve been running from all your life.

A karmic partner is helping you on a soul level, but on a mental level, they’ll be toxic and you’ll see it. They’ll drain every good energy within you.

You’ll see how toxic the relationship really is but you’ll stay.

3. They Bring You Too Much Pain

Identifying a karmic relationship is tricky. It’s hard to tell. There’s a good chance you’ll be in the thick of it; maybe sharing a kid or two before you finally realize what you’re in.

And every day will be a painful mess.

By the time you see what’s happening, you would have felt so much pain that you think it’s normal.

All relationships have their challenges, but karmic relationships are just tumultuous. These aren't regular challenges. They are challenges on steroids. One day they’re cheating on you and you're smashing their windshield and the next you’re bailing them out of jail. One day you’re high up and the next you’ve crashed on the ground and hard.

That's not normal. Relationships aren’t meant to be painful every day.

If you find that your relationship brings more pain than joy; if nothing is ever consistent in your relationship and don’t know what to expect day after day; if drama and trauma are the foundation of your relationship, then you may have a karmic teacher on your hand.

If you’re always angry, sad, or frustrated in your relationship; if you cry every single day, then this person is likely just here to teach you a lesson or three.

This type of pain and frustration all the time will bring out the worst in you. You will do things you wouldn’t normally do. You’ll turn into someone you don’t recognize. You'll act out of character and you won’t understand why.

Somedays you can’t stand to see their face because of all the things they put you through, but you still can’t let them go.

Karmic relationships are so addictive you can’t let go easily. It'll take a very strong person to leave, but as you grow, you’ll seriously consider leaving them.

You’ll try and you’ll fail many times, but eventually, you’ll do it.

Karmic relationships aren’t meant to last a long time. It only lasts while you clear some past karma and when that is done, you’ll move on and you’ll become a much better, wiser and more confident person because of all the things you’ve learned.