What is your relationship with winning and losing? Is it healthy?

I have received very different estimates on what percentage of chess players actually have a healthy relationship with winning and losing.

In an unhealthy relationship, when they 'win', you lose, and vice versa. Either way, you're not a 'team' or a 'partnership', or at least not a ...

Our society often mistakes competition with a love for winning. Do you love to win or hate to lose? This thought process is unhealthy. It's ...

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In my experience as a therapist, when partners feel they'll lose too much of themselves if they meet in the middle, they wind up endlessly ...

If I look at an argument with my partner as a fight to win, then I can only expect to lose them. ... the relationship is healthy. If those ...

This is where conflict occurs. The reason why is because by taking the Win/Lose method, you are deeming someone invaluable or lovable. As a ...

I'm certainly not indicating that being a sore loser, dwelling on losing or cheating to win is desirable. Rather, I'm suggesting that accepting ...

These experiences shape individuals' character, relationships, and perspectives. While winning provides validation and joy, losing offers ...

When playing games, many young children take great pleasure in their victory - and in our defeat. To insure their victory, they will cheat. They ...

There are lessons in losing, but are you learning from them? ... I love winning. It's one of the best feelings. There is something deeply ...

... the relationship). Ask your partner when a good time to talk will be. Make sure you're not flooded before you decide to share. Check-in with ...

When either person in a relationship tries to win, you both lose. The loser feels defeated and deprived and will punish the winner by ...

On the other hand, no matter how intensely they argue, successful couples behave toward one another from the standpoint that their mutual ...

When you begin categorizing the events in your life as winning and losing moments, you lose focus of the more gratifying aspects of life- ...

Without both these wins, you breed toxicity in your relationship. Loss plagues your connection especially when it is faux love and affection.

“In the long run, if it isn't a win for both of us, we both lose. That's why win/win is the only real alternative in interdependent realities.”.

The relationship turns into a competition with winners and losers. Often times when this shows up in relationships the actual issue gets pushed ...

It causes us to find out we aren't as good as we thought, or hoped to be. Losing can make you feel out of control, or at the very least more ...

In order to win in any argument or discussion, someone else has to lose. Since relationships are made up of two individuals whose successes and ...