Does Separation Help or Harm Relationships? An Expert's Opinion...

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Does Separation Help or Harm Relationships?

In some ways, this question depends on your level of relationship development.

If you are navigating relationship levels one or two, which are oriented towards establishing safety, we're not actually looking at whether separation is helpful or unhelpful to a specific relationship because what's most important is that you, as an individual, get safe (physically and emotionally).

When couples come to see Bryce and me, they are not usually navigating big safety issues. More often, they might be considering separation because they're struggling to maintain higher levels of relationship development—to go deeper, to go beyond roommates, and to feel like equal partners in a more fulfilled relationship.

Women often report some version of…“As long as I don't push for a deeper connection or have certain expectations in our relationship, everything seems fine. There's enough emotional safety for a base layer of friendship, but there doesn’t seem to be enough emotional safety to go into higher-level conversations to create deeper understanding and work things out fully. We don’t seem to have the skills for more fulfilled experiences of connection.

In that scenario, women sometimes wonder, “Is separation the answer?”

In this podcast episode, Jenny explores a few different types of separation:

1. Physical separation, such as taking a physical break or living in different homes.

2. Smaller separations, such as timeouts during conversations.

3. Separation of roles, responsibilities, or experiences.

Listen to the video above (or go to the podcast or YouTube channel to listen or watch) to get all of the details, specifics, and examples that Jenny shares in today’s episode.

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