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1 day ago

Situationships and the Fear of Being Single

Situationships provide intimacy without commitment, producing confusion, shame, and unresolved grief often fueled by fear of being single and relationship-pedestal beliefs.
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fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

The Problems With 'Monkey-Barring' in Dating

Monkey-barring is maintaining a current romantic relationship while seeking new partners, often to avoid singlehood and bypass breakup pain.
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Understand Why You Want a Relationship

Why do people want romantic relationships, if they do at all? The world today operates with a strong bias towards people being in, not out, of relationships (think "table for two?"). As a component of this bias is a presumption that if you're not in a relationship, you want to be. How do we understand this assumption? To what degree is it accurate? What does "wanting" a relationship mean?
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