How long is too long in a relationship?

ByJennifer Nurick
How long is too long?

Sometimes we stay in unhealthy relationships for too long. For many reasons:

  • I have invested so much time and energy into this, it can’t fail.
  • Will I ever meet anyone better?
  • Holding on to the idea that they will change.
  • What will my friends and family think?
  • Who will I be without them?
  • I will have to start dating again and I really don’t want to.
  • What will I do in the evenings?
  • Who will I go out with?

What was it that kept you in a relationship for too long?

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Jennifer Nurick is a Master's-qualified Clinical Psychotherapist, attachment and trauma therapist and couples therapist with over 20 years in private practice. She helps adults and couples heal anxious and avoidant attachment, childhood trauma and recurring relationship patterns, drawing on IFS, EMDR and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Jennifer is the author of Heal Your Anxious Attachment (New Harbinger), host of the Psychotherapy Central Podcast and founder of Psychotherapy Central.

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