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Neither partner can discuss a feeling without deflection, joke, or subject change. Difficult conversations last approximately 8 seconds before someone reaches for the TV remote.
Permanent. The remote will always be there.
None. Therapy has been suggested and mocked by both.
Patients with Chronic Emotionally-Unavailable Pairing typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Emotionally-Unavailable Pairing belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Absentia affeccionis mutualis, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
Think you have it? Find out what else you might be suffering from at the diagnosis generator. Or browse the full index of afflictions.