Repairing Attachment Wounds, Fixing Relationship Insecurity, and Finding Your Voice with Adam Lane Smith
The Wellness Mama Podcast
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The Effects of Avoidance on Relationships
Seven to 12 months into a new relationship, the avoidant person usually cannot hold up their end of the making you feel good anymore. Your oxytocin addiction then kicks in and you start chasing them obsessively for approval. I work with so many women who've been in the same relationship for eight years without ever getting married. They've got two or three kids together she's waiting for him to talk about marriage and he never will. That can either lead to a huge, huge disruptive fight in the first year. Often sometimes the husband if he's massively avoidant will actually have an affair after she has that first child Six months after having the child he'll start having an affair.
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