Have you ever had them come back, agree to your needs, then disappear?
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
Progress: I'm not sending the text
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
I used AI to analyze and plot our attachment styles based on all of our texts

A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
If you've been second guessing if things could have worked out, maybe this will help
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
Anyone else's avoidant ex reach out with extremely random texts post-breakup?
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
DAE's abandonment issues manifest in this way?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
I feel like real happiness will always evade me
This is still a new community where we're trying to frame the discussion of a very overlooked part of the human condition: childhood emotional neglect by primary caregivers. Help us get things started by contributing your thoughts and inviting others to join.
Is this stealthing? He didn't use a condom after we specifically went into the bedroom for...condoms
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Dating after my FA ex: intuition, dread, and questioning if anything is even real.
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
I'm over spending so much time focusing on this
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
Has anyone had their ex come back with a sob story about being single?
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
Feel like my therapist oversimplifies things and misses nuance
Have a question about something that happened in therapy? Want to know how your experience compares to other peoples? Wondering what the heck your therapist is talking about? Thinking about going into therapy but want to know what it's like from a patient's perspective? Share your psychotherapy stories and questions here. Clients and therapists are both welcome to exchange perspectives and ideas. Please be kind to each other.
My avoidant ex keeps coming back, tells me he faked the connection
A support community for those recovering from a breakup with a Fearful or Dismissive Avoidant
Friends keep pushing TBM on me, but I can't stand it. Here's my criticism.
This is a place to vent our frustrations with Lacy Phillips and her company To Be Magnetic. Are you sick of funding Lacy’s authentic life? Are you dissatisfied with your TBM experience? Are you wondering what this woman does all day since she outsources everything? Me too. I manifested this Reddit community but it’s not mine- welcome to our community! It’s kismet!
Why would a seemingly happily married ex repeatedly reach out, years later?
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DAE get the ick but remain attached?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
What do you do when you feel the pattern starting again, but the triggering behavior is relatively innocuous?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
Guess The Instinctual Variant Stacking
The Enneagram is a model of the human psyche that is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine interconnected personality types.
Tuning out during sessions because they feel repetitive
Internal Family Systems is a powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole. In IFS all parts are welcome.
After walking away, how do you avoid falling back into the anxious-avoidant loop? What's your internal experience been like post-breakup? When does it get easier?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
Learning about attachment theory to make things work with a confusing partner? Be careful.
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
DAE worry the other person will abruptly lose feelings?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
People who have gone multiple rounds with an avoidant partner: how was it the same as the first time? How was it different?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
DAs, do you really have a positive view of self?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.
What’s your attachment style and what specifically causes you anxiety in relationships?
Attachment Theory helps you understand how your relationship was with your parents when you were a child. Depending what kind of relationship you had with them, it will reflect on how you treat those close to you as an adult. So, understanding your attachment style will help you understand how and why we select our future partners. It will help you see our emotional patterns, your struggles with vulnerability, shame, and being afraid. It will help understand your needs and triggers.