10 Tips for Dealing With Separation Anxiety in Relationships

Sometimes experiencing and sitting with your emotions helps you process them. You know how they say a “good cry” can be really cathartic? This is absolutely true.

Let it out. Let yourself feel crappy.

You’ll feel better afterward and better able to manage your feelings. Sometimes it even helps you redirect your energy

• Take advantage of alone time and take action.
• After you’ve had a good cry, it’s time to do something meaningful: something that matters to you.
• Tackle a challenge you’ve been meaning to attempt.

To alleviate separation anxiety symptoms in adults — or even just general anxiety — physical activity can be crucial.

Staying active and busy makes the time go by more quickly, so your separation will be over before you know it. Keeping busy is one of the key ways I help my separation anxiety. 

PS: It also helps with general overthinking.

• One issue that might be contributing to your relationship separation anxiety is not having a firm communication plan.
• Be sure both of you are committed to your communication schedule.
• Realistic and reasonable.
• Be flexible, too. Know that occasionally, life gets in the way and communication might be delayed. Remember your partner has the best intentions and don’t freak out or spiral if your communication changes or doesn’t happen on a given day.

Missing your partner? Channel that energy and do something sweet for the other person in their love language.

You might feel sad to be separated from your partner for a period, but there are dozens of other people who would love to spend some of that time with you.

• focus on the reunion - a cause for celebration, instead of obsessing about the time away from one another, plan to do something sweet and special when you reunite.