Audition Running Slow and Clips Unlinking

I edit a 1-hour long podcast with 4 different people talking and a music track. Audition works great for me and I don't plan on replacing it any time soon. But when I get near the end of my initial edit, I find that it can take up to a second or two for my play head to move to where I click or to begin playback. Now, this wouldn't be an issue, but like I said my initial edit. I still have at least another hour or so of work after the point at which this begins to happen. I am running Adobe Audition version 13.0.7 on Windows 10 version 10.0.18363. I am running both Audition and my audio tracks off of an SSD, I have an 8-core processor clocked at 3.9GHz and 32GB of RAM.

I have also recently noticed an issue where about 15% of the time when I save my project, the clips magically unlink themselves so I have to go back and manually relink them. Which would be fine, but I save at least once a minute. And any time I can save not having to relink clips that should not be unlinked would be fantastic.

If anyone has any solutions or thoughts, they would be much appreciated!

Thank you!