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Understanding Your Nervous System with Sarah Baldwin

On Attachment

CHAPTER

The Relationship Between Anxiety and Love

Love is the experience of, let's say I'm anxiously attached, my experience of love is I'm just making a possibility up. That's all our system knows. So guess what happens? I need this person and they are really preoccupied with their work. And so we come together and guess what transpires? When an occurrence occurs, I threat detector says, what intel do I have on arguments? The avoidant person says, whoa, I have information about how people harm you. People aren't safe. And in a millisecond, we're pulled to that island where we retreat,. We shut off, we feel like we just have to get away.

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