Partner produces effort exclusively when losing patient's attention — a grand gesture, a rose, a trip. Effort evaporates the moment they are reassured. Cycle resets every 5 weeks.
Effort is reactive only.
None. Sustained effort has never been observed.
Patients with Chronic Selective-Effort Relationship typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Selective-Effort Relationship was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Effortus condicionalis romantica — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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