Quiet quitting RELATIONSHIPS: IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE?
Club|April 2023
No need to be blindsided when your partner silently detaches from you without confrontation. Watch out for these five red flags, and who knows, your love may be salvaged...
Quiet quitting RELATIONSHIPS: IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE?

You’ve probably heard of ‘ghosting’, when someone suddenly ends a relationship and stops all forms of communication, and ‘gaslighting’, when one partner manipulates the other into questioning their own reality, usually to control them. But now, there is something else to watch out for quiet quitting. It’s a concept that started with a viral TikTok, in which the originator was disengaging at work, doing the bare minimum necessary to not get fired. Since then, it’s also been applied to personal relationships, describing someone leaving their partner silently, over an extended period of time, without officially breaking it off.

Five signs 

THAT INDICATE THAT YOUR PARTNER MIGHT BE ‘QUIET QUITTING’:

1 HERE, BUT NOT HERE

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