How to Cope With an Avoidant Partner

Many of us struggle to cope with partners who are by their nature emotionally avoidant. Part of the solution comes from recognising the challenges involved, having sympathy for what makes people avoidant and learning to apply some well-tested new patterns of behaviour. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: 2WqVXzm FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: “There are, for many of us, few people as attractive as the avoidant; the sort that are permanently a little mysterious; who don’t speak so much; around whom one never quite knows where one is; in whose eyes there is a faraway look, and perhaps a certain melancholy too; in whose hearts we intuit a sadness we long to, but never quite can, touch; people who seem to promise us intimacy and connection, and yet who remain – however long we have been with them – mesmerisingly unreassuring.” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Visit us in person at our London HQ: Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: Find out how more here: SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: 2WqVXzm Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Lottie Kingslake Title animation produced in collaboration with: Vale Productions