Stefanie Stahl is a bestselling 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 partnership. This issue is about on-off relationships: Why can’t your partner really engage with you?
By Stefanie Stahl and Lukas Klaschinski
Lukas Klaschinski: Almost everyone knows them – either from their circle of friends and acquaintances or from their own experience: on-off relationships. Sometimes you’re together, sometimes not, and most of the time you’re neither really together in the “on phases” nor really apart in the “off phases”. Incidentally, these relationships are called “on-off relationships” because, like a light switch, they are sometimes on, then off, then on again – and so on. But what is actually behind this relationship dynamic?
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