Together you are less alone? When lovers no longer have anything to say to each other and go through life side by side instead of with each other, loneliness can also arise in relationships. What remains of affection when the person who was closest to you has become a stranger? And is a relationship inevitably doomed once the great silence has spread into everyday life? Couples and sex therapist Nancy Glisoni knows what divides couples emotionally and what they can do to revive the big we.
Ms. Glisoni, why do we feel lonely in relationships? Most of the time the feeling of loneliness comes from the fact that someone feels less heard, less understood. If communication in the relationship is poor, a kind of emotional gap gradually arises. If the emotional connection is lost, your partner can sit next to you on the couch and you still feel lonely. A feeling of loneliness can be a warning signal that something is wrong in the relationship.
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