You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg,

and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, we are talking all about situationships

and specifically four reasons why you keep attracting

situationships into your life. Now, for anyone who's not familiar with the term

situation ship, a situation ship could sort of be defined as when you're dating someone and

it's more than just a casual encounter. Maybe you've seen each other regularly and you talk a lot and

you know, it sort of starts to feel like a relationship but it lacks, you know, those core

features of maybe exclusivity or maybe you haven't talked about anything formal like that and

there's this reluctance to put a label on it.

And so the relationship just sort of drifts on without, you know, any of the foundational

elements like trust and commitment and clarity that really allow something to feel like

an actual relationship. So it exists in this in-between space,

this limbo between something and nothing. And unfortunately, from speaking to so many people,

this is a really common trope of modern dating. And it's something that I think some people more

than others are susceptible to and that's

really what we're going to be talking about today because as much as we can throw our hands up

and say, why me, this is so unfair. Everyone is emotionally unavailable and all I want is

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