Lockdown With Your Partner: Togetherness and Separateness
While some couples prefer autonomy and independence in a relationship, others enjoy a strong emotional connection. One partner may want to talk things through and need to always feel connected, reassured while the other will be more distant and removed. When the partner remains removed and distant, we then continue to pursue even more. As we pursue, the distancer retreats and seeks out alone time which intensifies the pursuer’s need for closeness. We refer to this as the Purs