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The Situationship Survival Guide

How to Stop Living in Maybe, Ask the Question, and Trust Yourself with the Answer

Narrated byJen TranLength59mChapters11
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Eight months. Most weekends. Sleepovers, private jokes, a key to his flat.

And still no name for what you are.

The Situationship Survival Guide is for the relationship that feels real enough to keep you attached but undefined enough to keep you wondering.

The audiobook opens with exactly that contradiction: a lovely night together, real intimacy, and a woman lying awake afterward mentally adding up everything that looks like a relationship while noticing everything that is still missing.

You’ll discover:

The goal is not to make someone commit.

It is to stop living indefinitely inside a question.

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Chapters

  1. Opening3:51
  2. Chapter 1: What You Are Actually In5:25
  3. Chapter 2: The Three Kinds5:42
  4. Chapter 3: Why the Not Knowing Wears You Out5:53
  5. Chapter 4: The One Sentence5:19
  6. Chapter 5: Asking Without Shrinking5:39
  7. Chapter 6: The Three Doors4:59
  8. Chapter 7: The Hard Moments5:27
  9. Chapter 8: What Felix Said5:03
  10. Chapter 9: When There Is Nothing to Grieve7:04
  11. Closing3:02

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It is a Tuesday, and it is nearly one in the morning, and you are lying in his bed while he sleeps. His arm is across you. The room smells of him and of the takeaway you shared on the sofa while you watched two episodes of the thing you only ever watch together. An hour ago he made you laugh so hard you had to put your fork down. It was, by any measure, a lovely evening. And now you are awake, looking at the ceiling, doing the sum again. Eight months. Most weekends. A key, actually, though he called it a spare in case he gets locked out. Your toothbrush is not here. It is in your bag. You have never met his friends. He has never come to anything of yours with more than four people at it. You do not appear in his stories, though you have watched every one of them. You have a name for his neighbour's cat. You do not have a name for what you are. You pick up your phone, dim the screen, and open the app you deleted in March and quietly reinstalled in May. You are not going to message anyone. You just want to see. Then you put it down, feel slightly sick, and look at the ceiling again.

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