Is Your Partner Mirroring a False Love Story?
Perfect chemistry or gaslighting with manipulation? What happens if you are just looking at your own feelings and not theirs? Welcome to mirroring.
ARE YOU BEING FOOLED BY A REFLECTION?
People often think getting along is great. Some pessimists caution against “Love Bombing” or other “Instant Clicks”. What’s wrong with everything going smoothly? Should we be paranoid? Is too good to be true really a thing.
Yes and No.
Let’s think about it. Are you simply scared to be hurt again or is there a hidden flag of manipulation?
Mirroring a behavior in which one person unconsciously imitates the gestures, facial expressions, speech or posture of another person. This is a complex topic that goes far beyond the simple reproduction of motion dynamics (2).
Some people describe this as “matching energy”. If he is aggressive than I am aggressive. If he is nice than I am nice. He shows me love so I show him love.
Establishing contact is paramount to human interaction. To quote Sigmund Freud, one of the well-known psychotherapeutic experts of the 20th century, his thoughts on contact were, “Even the most brilliant results suddenly…
