Some SLHPPs ("self-limiting high-performing persons") continue to remain unwilling to leave behind the loose structure, comforting familiarity, and open-endedness of the journeys of discovery of the postcollege period. They stay rootless and uncommitted, gliding from one adventure to another, continuing an extended time-out, and considering next steps, while keeping the pressure low and avoiding seriousness.

Frequent moves become part of this way of life, and SLHPPs set up their lives to accommodate them. For example, a much greater number of my project participants give a post office box, instead of a home address, as their mailing address than any other group in my psychotherapy practice combined. A PO box saves the hassle of completing post office change-of-address forms. Project participants have confided that while packing the boxes for the latest move, they fantasize about doing the next move differently or better.

You may have moved from place to place, apartment to apartment, city to city, or coast to coast trying possibilities on for size. Some moves may have been stopgaps, some may have been made on a whim without adequate reflection, while others may have been the fallout of other decisions. In the beginning the advantages of a new situation loom in the foreground, appearing to solve the drawbacks of the old situation with the freshness of a new start.

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