If you feel your partner is emotionally detached, how would you like them to try and reconnect?
If you feel your partner is emotionally detached, how would you like them to try and reconnect?
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If you feel your partner is emotionally detached, how would you like them to try and reconnect?
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If I felt that he is emotionally detached rather than him actually knowing and/or realizing that he is then there is probably no reconnection possible until he recognizes his detachment himself. If he did recognize hes emotionally detached and he actually wants to reconnect again then therapy would be the smartest way to go about it because maybe its him or maybe its me or the relationship itself isn’t working, therapist should be able to determine what led to the emotional detachment, the vague answer would be to try to go through a honeymoon faze again and date as if it was a new relationship maybe even sleep/live separately and see each other for dates etc. take a trip away no phones, no distractions, I think for me personally that would make me feel like im being won over again and vice versa.
Yeah, unless they’re aware of it, see it as a problem, and decide to work on this, there’s no way out of it.
I think I’d want them to start with presence. Like just showing up (not with big gestures but by being genuinely there). Ask how I’m really doing, be curious again, not out of obligation but because they want to know. Emotional detachment can’t be fixed overnight but small moments of real connection like eye contact, listening without fixing, remembering something small I said last week mean so much more than they realize!