Caitlin Green

Boredom, lower intimacy, attention to other people like a wandering eye.

Are these pieces of the puzzle?

Sounds kind of bleak.

If you're feeling this way, if you shift your focus into other things, like maybe you dive into your work, you dive into hobbies, maybe you hang out with your friends more.

Will that make the relationship worse?

Will that make the relationship better?

Does it not contribute at all?

Wow.

I'm just relating this back to like lots of conflict in the relationship.

I guess that could be perceived as a sign of still caring if there's a lot of conflict.

If you're just kind of checked out, if you're just kind of feeling like, I don't know, romantically indifferent.

Does that mean the relationship is over without even realizing it?

Are you halfway done or is there perhaps a way to repair the relationship?

I guess that's hopeful.

For those listening who are thinking, I might be feeling indifferent in my own relationship, do you have any recommendations?

It might not be based off of anything you've studied, but any gut instinct on how to repair things?

Well, Mirna Djuric is a social psychology researcher at Free University Amsterdam.

Mirna, I've enjoyed this chat.

Thanks for sharing your research with me.

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