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's 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 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, you know, 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 a committed healthy secure

relationship. But you know when it keeps happening again and again and again

it's just not really honest to suggest that we don't have a part in it you know that's

really a common theme in everything that I share and teach is taking responsibility for the ways in which we are

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