“I read about rebound relationships – please explain.”

The term is used to describe a relationship that is in reaction to a breakup or a loss where one or both parties enters a relationship before finding “closure” on the immediate-past relationship:

• Falling in love (or into a relationship) to fill a vacuum rather than because of who the new person is.
• Falling in love (or into a relationship) because the grieving or abandoned person has apparently nowhere else to go.
• Falling in love (or into a relationship) out of anger, revenge, or to prove a point, in the wake of a troubled breakup.
• Falling in love (or into a relationship) out of a sense of novelty rather than because of who the new person is.
• Experimenting with someone and dating as a sense of loss dissipates without being honest about intentions.
• Entering a relationship because being alone is too frightening or shameful to contemplate.
• Falling into a new relationship thoughtlessly and therefore showing little or no respect oneself or for the new person.
• Entering a new relationship when the past relationship has not fully ended.

Posted on October 16, 2016 at 6:47 pm in Affairs, Boundaries, Communication, Differentiation, Difficult Relationships, Education, Family, Family Systems Theory, Friendship, High maintenance relationships, Long distance relationships, Love, Manipulation, Womanhood   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL