Believe it or not, repressing your feelings is the key to a successful relationship

Idon’t know if you are young enough, or have daily access to people who are young enough, to have come across the concept of “ quiet quitting ”?

Originally, it applied to jobs and meant the practice of fulfilling your professional duties, but no more. No unpaid overtime, no volunteering for extra projects, no bubbling enthusiasm. Just work, boundaries and home in time for tea.

Now the concept is expanding. Now you can “ quiet quit” your relationship . It is generally applied to marriage or similar long-term investments (with the short ones, obviously, you can make a great big noisy fuss and storm out, and that is part of the pleasure of short-term relationships) and it means emotionally withdrawing, lowering your expectations, and increasingly cultivating a life lived separately from