Stefanie Stahl is a best-selling author and psychotherapist, Lukas Klaschinski is a podcast star and psychologist – together they write a column every two weeks on topics related to love, family and relationships. This issue is about on-off relationships: Why can’t your partner really get involved with you?
By Stefanie Stahl and Lukas Klaschinski
Lukas Klaschinski: Almost everyone knows them – either from friends and acquaintances or from their own experience: on-off relationships. Sometimes you’re together, sometimes you’re not, and most of the time you’re neither really together in the “on phases” nor really separated in the “off phases.” By the way, these relationships are called “on-off relationships” because, like light switches, they are sometimes on, then off again, then on again – and so on. But what is actually behind this relationship dynamic?
Source: Stern
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