After several years of writing Baggage Reclaim and being asked numerous times ?Are they unavailable??, I have a list of the most common unavailable relationships as I?ve realised that pretty much everything I?ve heard falls into eleven types of relationship. Remember: if your relationship is missing the ?landmarks? - commitment, consistency, progression, balance, and intimacy ? you?re dealing with unavailability issues. Whether it?s emotional, physical, or spiritual unavailability ? they?re unavailable for an available healthy relationship.
?Casual? Relationships ? Casual arrangements including Friends With Benefits and booty calls as well as those who don?t want anything ?heavy? and like to keep it ambiguous and unlabelled. Think of these as getting all the fringe benefits without the commitment or responsibility.
Boomerang Relationships ? Can?t break, won?t break, your ex keeps leaving and returning, and you keep taking them back. Or you keep chasing them down and waiting around, sometimes even being disruptive in their current relationship. If you?ve ever dated someone that pops up, gives you an amazing time, disappears for a while and then pops up again..and lather, rinse, repeat, these also fall under the boomerang umbrella.
Rebound Relationships ? Caught between two relationships, this is basically not over an ex or the pain from a breakup or the hurts from the fallout. This is recently broken up, separated, divorced, or widowed.
Affairs ? A messy combo of one person rebelling and the other competing, one or sometimes both of you are cheating on someone else and you play second fiddle. It also includes remaining with someone that you know shags around on you or who has ?emotional? affairs. Just in case you?re in any doubt, neither The Cheater nor the Other Person are available whatever theirs or your reasons for the affair.
Dalliances ? Typically characterised by being short-term, these are casual flings, one night stands, or whirlwind romances that fizzle out. Think plenty of Fast Forwarding and possibly some Future Faking. Note ? you may not realise it?s a dalliance at the outset.
Rehabing and Remodelling Relationships ? This is excessive baggage particularly in the form of problems including addiction which you try to fix, heal, and help, and are also relationships where even if they don?t have any major problems, there?s a lot of control and demands for change. This also includes people who are making out that they?re getting help but just paying lip service to it and using it to hook people in and gain their confidence.
Long-Term Struggles ? Some unavailable relationships can go the distance in terms of time but have all sorts of problems within them even when there is history, a ?title?, a legal piece of paper, or kids. Think of this like flogging that donkey till it collapses. This can include some casual relationships where you haven?t heeded the fact that they don?t want to commit but you stick to them like glue in the hopes they?ll change. Next thing a decade or two has gone by.
Fantasy Relationships ? The combination of illusions and denial and also includes virtual relationships this is pure intimacy avoidance. This includes when you get hijacked by your feelings and then project them onto them and assume there?s more between you than there is, getting carried away with online relationships that don?t translate into offline at all or are mostly conducted through words instead of human interaction. I?ve also heard from a hell of a lot of people that wait around for someone that pops up occasionally and then disappears.
Abusive Relationships ? Full of manipulation, there?s a presence of emotional, physical, and/or verbal abuse with use of excessive force and control.
Secret Relationships ? This relationship is on the down low for whatever reason but often includes issues with race, religion, and family. However it can be as simple as them giving you some rinky dink reason why nobody else ?needs? to know, introducing you as a ?friend?, working together (watch out ? this is the easiest excuse for a secret relationship) and of course includes some ambiguous casual relationships. It also includes immensely secretive people who put up walls as well as people who are being ambiguous about their sexuality and dripfeeding revelations.
Excuse Relationships ? Are they busy, scared, too tired, in need of more time, shy, dealing with a lot right now, ?overwhelmed? by their feelings, got a presentation in two years time that they need to prepare for, ?overwhelmed? by their feelings for you, got an ex that they?re tip toeing around, kids that don?t like you, a mama who needs ?more time?, or just in a need of an extra day/week/month/year/lifetime to give you what you need? If you or they are making excuses, they?re obviously not available for a relationship not least because you or they keep lessening their responsibility with the excuses. If you?re the type that?s been reluctant to pigeonhole them into another category or reluctant to admit they?re unavailable, this is your relationship. Where there?s excuses there?s denial and there?s an unavailable relationship.
And remember: If you?re in one of these relationships, it means you?re off the market for an available relationship making you unavailable yourself. Being available to an unavailable isn?t the same as being available ? it?s like putting a cap on yourself and limiting your options.
Your thoughts?
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