Please make it so editing video clip length doesn't affect audio

(talking about when you have audio seperate from the video) The video clips are like, linked to the audio so when you shorten the length of or delete a clip, for example, your audio will also get cut or deleted. This makes it very irritating to edit the length of clips and it would be really great if it was made so you can edit video clips lengths without messing up your audio, or at the very least have "linking" your audio to video clips be an optional toggle (if such an option already exists and I am simply unaware of it, please let me know!)