#14: 5 Ways to Support an Avoidant Partner

On Attachment

Stephanie Rigg

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In this episode, we're diving into 5 ways to support an avoidant partner - so that you can cultivate greater understanding and connection, and build a safe, secure relationship. We'll touch on whether it's a good idea to tell your partner that they're avoidant, how to communicate your needs in a way that your partner can receive them, how not to communicate with an avoidant partner, and how your partner's love languages might differ from yours. Download the FREE Anxious Attachment Start...

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0:00.0	Welcome to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience dating, love and relationships.
0:12.2	I'm your host, relationship coach and attachment expert, Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.
0:28.3	Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.
0:31.2	I'm really excited about today's episode.
0:35.3	We're going to be talking about five ways to support an avoidant partner.
0:42.0	This is going to be a two-part series next week being five ways to support an anxious partner.
0:48.8	And it's really in response to the many questions that I get from people on Instagram and elsewhere, you know, wanting to know, like, what's best for me to do in order to support my partner to feel safe,
0:56.7	to open up, to feel reassured, you know, whatever it might be, depending on the particular
1:01.7	struggles that you are navigating in your relationship from an attachment point of view.
1:07.3	So I'm hoping that through today's episode and through offering these ways that
1:13.6	you can support an avoidant partner, that you might notice some shifts. And maybe you might notice
1:19.7	that in implementing these things, your partner becomes a little less guarded, a little less
1:26.6	prone to withdrawing or pulling away, and a little more trusting in the
1:30.9	safety of the relationship. So before I dive in, I just want to clarify preempting the questions
1:38.2	I'll inevitably get around this. Am I talking about dismissive avoidant or fearful avoidant or both
1:43.7	when I say an avoidant partner?
1:46.5	I think today's episode will largely apply across the board.
1:51.8	It's probably more suited to dismissive avoidant partners, but I think equally everything that
1:59.4	I'm going to speak to today would apply in the context of a relationship with a fearful avoidant partners, but I think equally everything that I'm going to speak to today would
2:01.5	apply in the context of a relationship with a fearful avoidant person. I will also say that this is
2:06.9	not specifically from the point of view of an anxiously attached partner, but a lot of the
2:12.6	triggers that can come up and that we're going to try and solve for in this episode are probably more
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