Dr. Ciara Kelly

Yeah.

And maybe there's something in it.

We always talk about what's really important to human beings is connection.

And severing a connection so that you feel disconnected is maybe a more fear-filled sort of space to be entering.

And people don't like change as well.

So leaving a relationship has its own fears involved.

Staying in a relationship gives you... We're always about inertia, aren't we, to a certain extent?

The world does go around in couples, but something like 38% of the adult population is single.

Yeah.

I know.

You see that all the time.

It's quite heartbreaking, isn't it?

Sometimes maybe, but I'm not 100% sure that it is, that there's nothing to say.

It's an odd one.

Yeah.

And I do think that there are people who, I don't know, just think being on their own is something.

I think sometimes being part of a couple, you subsume bits of yourself and you lose confidence as an individual.

And that's an issue too.

I often think it's very hard, just before we move on, for stay-at-home parents who are usually women, not always, but usually women, because they... Identity.

Their whole life is caught up in that unit, the relationship and the children, and they don't have an external... Well, they probably have social lives or whatever, but...