#225: How to Know Whether to Keep Trying or Walk Away from a Relationship
On Attachment
Stephanie Rigg
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Few decisions feel as emotionally loaded as deciding whether to keep trying in a relationship or to walk away. There is no universal right answer — and for many people, especially those with anxious attachment, this question can feel endlessly destabilising.
In this episode, I share 10 reflective questions designed to support clearer, more grounded decision-making. These questions aren’t a checklist or a formula to tell you what to do. They’re an invitation to slow down, step out of fear-based urgency, and reconnect with your own values, needs, and capacity.
If you’ve been stuck going back and forth, waiting for certainty, or hoping something will finally make the choice clear for you, this episode offers a compassionate framework to help you find your own way forward.
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| 0:00.0 | To be or not to be. |
| 0:02.8 | Right now we're offering a range of incentives across Audi models. |
| 0:06.5 | That is the... |
| 0:07.5 | But only until the 28th of February. |
| 0:10.0 | The... |
| 0:10.7 | Um... |
| 0:12.0 | So stop whatever you're doing. |
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| 0:23.8 | Terms and conditions apply. |
| 0:25.1 | Selected models, retail customers and participating Audi centres only. |
| 0:29.7 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:30.9 | Welcome back to another episode of On Attachment. |
| 0:33.9 | In today's episode, we are talking about how to know when a relationship is worth fighting for, |
| 0:39.5 | how to know whether to stay and keep trying or to let go, to walk away, to throw in the towel. |
| 0:47.1 | Now, of course, this is a hugely personal and oftentimes a really hard and heavy thing to be sitting with. So I just want to |
| 0:56.3 | acknowledge at the outset that if that's the situation that you're in, if that's the |
| 1:00.3 | decision that you are confronting, it makes sense that it feels impossibly complicated and |
| 1:06.5 | dense and layered and conflicted because, of course, everyone's situation is going to be different. |
| 1:12.7 | And if there are other factors that make it even more complicated, like maybe you've been |
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