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9 Signs Of Love Bombing

One moment, you’re showered with expensive gifts and all the attention anyone could ever ask for. Then, your partner gets upset when you socialize and spend time with others, leaving you feeling cut off from your friends and family. Why?...

Love Bombing Explained

Are you dazzled by the romantic, fairytale-like gestures you lavishly receive from your new partner every day? Are you thinking you’ve finally found your perfect match and are excited about their hints about building a future together? This might just...

Reaction Formation: All You Need to Know

As one of the most common defense mechanisms, reaction formation helps us avoid anxiety-inducing, painful, or simply negative emotions and impulses. It involves replacing these negative or maladaptive impulses with other behaviors, which are often expressed in an exaggerated manner....

What Is Love Addiction?

Why am I like this? At a pivotal moment in my life, I received the diagnosis that I was a “love addict.” The weight of that term impacted me deeply. What did it mean? How abnormal IS love addiction? Would...

Coping With An Emotionally Distant Partner

Do you feel like your partner is pulling away from you? Do they seem emotionally distant and you can't tell why? Do they seem less interested in spending time with you than they used to be? You are not alone. ...

The Ambivalent In Relationship – Anxiety and Avoidance

When it comes to unhealthy relationships, the most common types of people are: those who desperately cling on out of unmet longing from childhood wounds (the Anxious), and those who avoid connection from being engulfed or feeling unsafe from childhood...

Vital Aspects to Consider Before Separating

To some people, separation may sound like a perfect solution when you feel stuck and don't know what to do about your relationship. It could be an opportunity to take some time off and get a new perspective on things....

Temptation In Relationships: Why It Happens & How To Resist It

Adultery, cheating, having a wandering eye… Whatever you may call it, many people consider it a deal breaker in a committed monogamous relationship. Monogamy is all about focusing your romantic feelings on one person, and infidelity can irrevocably endanger this...

What Is Attachment Dysregulation? (Formerly Known As Love Addiction)

If you’ve ever felt like the world was coming to an end, depressed or in despair when you’ve let go of a relationship, then you may have experienced love withdrawal, or what the Behavioral Health industry has been calling “Love...

Love Withdrawal is a Painful and Destabilizing Experience

Love withdrawal is the emotional, physical, and nervous-system response that occurs when a romantic relationship ends, particularly when childhood abandonment or attachment wounds are also present. At PIVOT, we call the peak of this experience an Attachment Storm. If you’ve...

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