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Charlie Elizabeth Culverhouse

Is your relationship stuck in a rut? Psychologist reveals how to stop your relationship becoming ‘predictable and boring’

Bored couple.

A psychologist who specialises in relationships has revealed how to avoid long-term partnerships becoming ‘predictable and boring’ - and it's more simple than you might think. 

For many people in long-term relationships, reliability is big thing. It's reassuring to have someone you know you can fall back on, someone who you know will be at home when you return, someone who you can trust to split the rent and bills with. But reliability and predictability are two different things, and the latter isn't what we always really want in a partner. 

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