No matter how you try, it seems you cannot convince your partner that you are committed to them. Maybe your partner is sticky, jealous or protected by staying distant. Whatever the dynamic, they think you think the worst of them and fear that you will leave. So what can you do to show that you don’t need to worry?
Have you noticed how you leave a bad relationship just to find yourself repeating the same patterns in the following? You’re not alone. A recent study from the University of Alberta found that people tend to recreate many of the same patterns in their new relationships that they had in the old ones.
For duet, emotional connection and sexual intimacy are dynamically related, so difficulties in one area often destabilize the other. And the “chicken or egg” relationship between sex and emotional connection may be different for each couple. For some people, the desire to be sexual arises as a result of feeling emotionally connected.
