In this episode of their column, Stefanie Stahl and Lukas Klaschinski write about on-off relationships. They explore the question: Why can’t my partner really commit to me?
This text comes from the stern archive and first appeared in December 2023.
Lukas Klaschinski: Almost everyone knows them – either from friends and acquaintances or from their own experience: on-off relationships. Sometimes you are together, sometimes you are not, and most of the time you are neither really together in the “on phases” nor really separated in the “off phases”. These relationships are called “on-off relationships” because, like light switches, they are sometimes on, then off, then on again – and so on. But what is actually behind this relationship dynamic?
Source: Stern
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