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Control by Distance: How Avoidants Keep the Power Without Saying a Word

Avoidants love to call themselves independent, but independence isn’t what keeps them from replying to messages or showing up when intimacy…

Sep 12

Sep 12

How to Break Your Addiction to Avoidants

One day you’ll receive a breadcrumb and you’ll think, “I’ve eaten this meal before. It’s not worth the indigestion.”

Aug 26

Aug 26

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of the Avoidant

Avoidant attachment can be deeply tragic. The tragedy lies in the self sabotage. The very behaviors they carefully set in place, designed…

Aug 12

Aug 12

The Eerie Overlap Between Avoidance and Covert Narcissism

There are shocking ways avoidant attachment, especially when left unchecked, starts to look and feel a hell of a lot like covert narcissism

Aug 8

Aug 8

The Moment The Fearful Avoidant Devalues You and Pretends They Didn’t Realize

The words hung there like smoke. Slow and heavy. Not quite loud, but echoing all the same.

Aug 7

Aug 7

Why Avoidants Idealize You — Until You Make Them Feel Loved Too Much

Avoidants don’t date people. They date projections. And in the early days, you are a damn masterpiece.

Aug 1

Aug 1

10 Totally Inexcusable Things My Avoidant Ex Did to Me

Let this be your cautionary tale

Jul 30

Jul 30

The Scars the Avoidant Leaves on the Anxious Preoccupied’s Nervous System

And Why You Might Never Fully Trust Again

Jul 29

Jul 29

The Ugly Ego of the Avoidant: Why They Keep Their Options Open Even When They’re Yours

Avoidants keep options open because commitment triggers the flight response and attention from others regulates their shaky self esteem

Jul 25

Jul 25

How to Get Over An Avoidant

Silence is sometimes the only message the avoidant deserves

Jul 24

Jul 24

Angrily-Attached

Angrily-Attached

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Attachment wounds, righteous rage, and the road back to self. I write for the broken-hearted, ready to set eggshells on fire.

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