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fromPsychology Today
19 hours 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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