Comments on: Stay Together For the Couch? http://www.eharmony.com/blog/2012/03/21/stay-together-for-the-couch/ eHarmony experts’ take on dating, relationships and the science of love Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:53:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Audrey http://www.eharmony.com/blog/2012/03/21/stay-together-for-the-couch/#comment-6957 Audrey Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:32:09 +0000 http://advice.eharmony.com/blog/?p=10917#comment-6957 I stayed with someone to prove people wrong. He wasn’t an overly terrible human being, but he was egocentric and an introvert. I am an extrovert. He couldn’t understand why I needed more social interaction than he could give me…thus he isolated me…and it was miserable. My parents and friends believed he wouldn’t be a good match for me. We seemed well matched at first, but when I realized they were right, I tried to stick it out to prove them wrong. I was miserable, he was miserable…when he finally ended things by saying horribly demeaning things to me, I wasn’t devastated at the loss of HIM. I was devastates at my loss of self-respect.

I assume that sort of commitment would constitute “perceived restraint”?

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