This week for Can We Talk?, relationship therapist morayalmft tackles a question from a reader who desperately wants a long-term partnership, but who just can’t find the “one.”
, and yet these are the relationships I tend to invest in and get attached to. But they usually become so unsustainable, dramatic, and bad for me that they implode after six months. “A” happens more than “B” but “B” has happened enough that sometimes I feel like an idiot who pushes away the good things and tethers themselves to the bad.I feel like Goldilocks, and I can’t find my “just right.
All of us are constantly organizing and categorizing the world around us. We put people in boxes, but we also put ourselves in them. We all do that differently based on the society that we grew up in, and the stories it taught us about ourselves and what love looks like. Our lifelong work is to break down these narratives and make sure they evolve with us.But all of us also carry these stories with us when we’re dating. I grew up in a home that showed me loving grandparents but fighting parents.
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