Sentence examples for suffocating relationship from inspiring English sources

In this biography, Nathan explores the disparity between Wright's glamorous facade and her turbulent interior: a miserable woman, Wright was locked in a suffocating relationship with her mother.

But there are hidden depths in a hugely enjoyable story in which the performers also play two goldfish, and where the metaphor for escaping the fish bowl of a suffocating relationship is handled with humour and a lightness of touch.

Poppy Cosyns of The Sun noted that "a starker vocal and acoustic guitar backing herald" the song, while considering its lyrical content as "a sincere story of a suffocating relationship".

The extent of our dependence is so terrifying that many choose to stay in failed, suffocating relationships, too scared to face the consequences.

Clumsy it might have been, but because that plotline is tacked on at the end, it doesn't interfere with the mighty central pillar of the film: the desperate, suffocating, co-dependent relationships of Mr and Mrs de Winter, Mrs Danvers and Rebecca.

This is partly because its source material, a short puppet play from 1945 by Jane Bowles, depicts a suffocating, insular relationship between two sisters.

That mother-daughter relationship is embattled, suffocating and incestuous in all but deed.

Exactly a year before this awful morning, I left a relationship that had felt increasingly suffocating.

Suffocating her and bullying her into a relationship will do the opposite of what you're hoping for.

But in Graz, for the first time, Rovena feels that Besfort is suffocating her, a feeling that will mount as the relationship progresses.

Is there something suffocating about nuclear families in which temperamentally mismatched people are forced to have relationships?