The well known phrase “There is a thin line between love and hate” has been so overused, leading more people to believe that love and hate have a very close association. A lot of people have been in relationships that are usually known as “love-hate relationship”, in which emotions for both partners are complex and intense. Love and hate can share characteristics that are alike like how powerful they tend to be, they are both usually filled with emotion directed as someone else, and they can be physically acted out. Your relationship could be drawing closer to the love and hate divide if your feelings have intensified, you have been thinking deeply and are getting more jealous. Healthier ways to improve the quality of your relationship that you can implement include paying attention to your self-esteem and finding better ways of improving it. Love and hate are intense emotions. When you are feeling a strong emotion such as love or hate, it is usually difficult to be unbiased about the relationship. Both love and hate have the ability to completely consume you. Strongly loving your partner can lead you to accept things you would not ordinarily accept, just to hold on to them. On the other hand, when you intensely hate someone, you will hold on to the hate regardless of the kindness they may try showing to you. When the relationship ends, it becomes very challenging to accept and move forward. Even though it is possible to feel certain emotions for objects or situations, love and hate both have to be directed at another person. These feelings you are feeling towards someone else, you expect similar feelings to also be felt towards you. The longing for your emotion to be reciprocated can only be fulfilled by the specific person you feel the emotion for. If they do not extend the same amount of emotion to you, you will feel downhearted and this can evoke hate. Love and hate are normally different from other kinds of emotions that may be less intense. If you have strong romantic feelings for someone, it is normal for you to want to express how you feel through touching them. Similarly, hate yearns to find ways of expression. When you hate someone, hurting them makes you feel good. However, these feelings can be dangerous and therefore  should  always be avoided. Love and hate move us to act and express how we feel towards a person. It can be tricky to continue having a stable relationship if you do not draw yourself back from the love and hate line. There are telltale signs to look out for in order to ensure that you stay clear off the boundary. One of the signs is having intense feelings for another. When you are close to the boundary, you may at times struggle with feeling both emotions  simultaneously or interchangeably. One day you can be head over heels for your partner, and the next you despise the very thought of them. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable with someone means allowing them to see the real you, inner you, your bare soul with your innermost thoughts and feelings. The deeper someone knows you, the greater the chance that the pain you will feel when they hurt you will be greater. This is because they know your weaknesses. However, they can hurt you unintentionally as well. It is normal to be hurt every now and then by the people we love, but holding on to the hurt is what causes greater problems. This can turn into hatred the more you think about it and analyze it. Jealousy usually consists of a mixture of caring about someone and wanting to protect them. In the beginning it may start off as loving someone deeply, however, your low self-esteem can be able to persuade you that you do not deserve to be loved. This can make you become extremely alert to your partner’s behavior. Spending a lot of time feeling jealous can evoke hate for your partner as you begin to hate them for not loving you alone. Love-hate relationships usually start off like normal relationships. However, the unhealthy behaviors in the relationship can trigger partners to have hate for their significant other. This struggle between love-hate relationships is not a healthy relationship. In order to effectively resolve the love-hate relationship, you need to help boost your self-esteem, understand and appreciate yourself independently of your partner, do not make a habit of overplaying scenarios in your head and be open to seeking professional help like seeing a psychologist or therapist.