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The lifelong fractiousness between them may have its roots in Hannah's anxiety that Thomas's inability to settle down portends a deeper malaise echoing his father's.
If a society's lexicon of romantic pathologies reveals its particular anxieties, high on our own list would be diagnoses like "inability to settle down" or "immaturity," leveled at those who stray from the norms of domestic coupledom either by refusing entry in the first place or, once installed, pursuing various escape routes: excess independence, ambivalence, "straying," divorce.
Eve, tremendously effective at all she does, is ill-fated in only one regard: Her inability to settle down with the love of her life, Alex Getz.
A main theme of the episode is Kate's inability to commit to other people, always running from difficult emotional situations, and having barriers between her and her interests – physical, as in Sawyer's cage or Jack's aquarium, or metaphorical, as in her inability to settle down as Kevin's wife.
Inability to settle down and do your usual tasks.
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He seemed to settle down.
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