There is a cycle running in your relationship. The more you reach, the more they pull back. The more they pull back, the more urgently you reach. Neither of you chose it. Both of you are running it. This episode maps the anxious-avoidant cycle step by step, explains what is happening in each partner's nervous system, and makes the case that a cycle both people run is a cycle both people can change.

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Avoidant attachment is not coldness. It is not indifference. It is a survival strategy built before your relationship began, in a world that taught your partner that needing things was unsafe. This episode explains what dismissive and fearful-avoidant patterns actually look like from the inside, why the withdrawal happens when closeness increases, and what changes when you stop reading the distance as rejection. The complete book is available on https://amzn.to/4vXgTyu

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