How To Support Your Avoidant Partner

How To Support Your Avoidant Partner

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Your Needs Are Valid...And So Are Their Limits

Are you asking for too much or asking someone who can’t give you what you need? In this episode, we explore the difference between valid needs and unrealistic expectations, how to ask without pressuring, and when to accept someone’s limits or walk away. Your needs matter. So does ...  Show more

What Each Attachment Style Sacrifices to Stay in a Relationship

What does your attachment style cause you to sacrifice in order to keep a relationship?In this episode, I explore how anxious, avoidant, and fearful-avoidant attachment can influence what we tolerate, give up, or mistake for “healing” in relationships, and how to tell the differe ...  Show more

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In this episode, we're diving into 5 ways to support an anxiously attached partner. This is a follow-up to our previous episode which discussed how to support an avoidant partner. We'll discuss things like openness and transparency as an antidote to uncertainty, how ...

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