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The Sabrina Zohar Show

152: What Is Disorganized Attachment and How It Shows Up in Dating and Relationships

The Sabrina Zohar Show

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Mental Health, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In Part 3 of Sabrina Zohar’s attachment style series, she dives deep into the most misunderstood style — disorganized attachment (a.k.a. fearful avoidant). If you’ve ever craved love but ran from it the second it got real, or found yourself in push-pull dynamics that feel more like emotional whiplash than romance, this episode is for you. Sabrina unpacks the neuroscience, psychology, and survival roots of disorganized attachment — and gives you tools to break free. Plus, she explains how to spot it early, how to navigate it in relationships, and what healing really looks like.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, hello.

0:02.4

Welcome to another episode of the Sabrina Zohar Show. My name is Sabrina Zohar, and I am your host. Welcome back, my babies. Part three of the attachment theories. So we are going to talk today about the disorganized. Some people say the fearful avoidance. Some people call it disorganize, whatever the fuck you want to call it. We're going to talk about that today. The push-pull dynamic. Come on strong, leave quickly, the hot, the cold.

0:03.1

I got you, babies. and some people call it disorganized, whatever the fuck you want to call it. We're going to talk about that today. The push-pull dynamic.

0:21.5

Come on strong, leave quickly, the hot, the cold.

0:24.3

I got you, babies.

0:25.2

I am here for you, and I'm so excited. As always, guys, if you need anything, everything on link in show notes, you want to join a course, you want to work one-on-one, whatever you guys need is all there. And guys, please don't forget, rate review the show.

0:19.0

Please use kindness with the language if you're going to leave any comments.

0:21.4

I read everything.

0:22.4

We just asked to build a healthy and secure community and not be spewing hate, so that's my only request. But guys, I'm just so grateful for you. Thank you to everyone who's rated. Thank you for sharing the show. And thank you for being here with us. It means the fucking world. So without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we?

0:53.0

Welcome back, friends. I'm excited. I love this series. I mean, as we know, yeah, the avoidant, yeah, the anxious. Now we're going to talk to sorganize, and the next week we'll be into the secure partnership, and we are going to round this out. And guys, feel free to comment in the comments. If you want a different series, if you want me to go more into something, if you had something that you're like, oh, my questions just weren't answered. I would love more.

1:29.6

We are here to fucking help. And let's just do some quick housekeeping. If you haven't already, please turn auto downloads on. They are fucking us really hard right now and things are changing with all the algorithms and the platforms. And so please, please, please, that's all I ask. Subscribe, follow along, leave a comment. Engage in some capacity is literally all I ask.

1:31.1

You don't have to pay for fucking shit.

2:00.9

You don't want ad free. You don't have to pay for it. But if you do, great, it's an option. You want to join a court. Whatever it is, you have the options. But please, please, please, that's all I ask of you if you haven't already. Okay. So let's get into it. And I have dated my fair share of disorganized, fearful, whatever attachment, and it is a loop-de-lou. So we are going to talk about it all. But if you've ever thought, I want love more than anything, but the second someone gets close to you, I'll God, I want to run, then this fucking episode is going to be for you. Or if you've dated somebody who texts you, I love you at 2 a.m., then doesn't respond for three to five business days, then shows up at your door with fucking flowers, but then they go out, then you need to

2:05.8

hear this because that is a classic sign of disorganized. And if you've ever looked at your dating

2:11.1

history and thought, fuck, why do I keep choosing people who can't love me the way I want to be loved,

2:17.1

which is like very real and very serious.

2:18.9

We're about to get you some answers.

2:53.6

And I think the reality is what I'm seeing in your questions isn't just anxious attachment. And like I think a lot of us want to think that. And it's not just avoid an attachment. There is a lot of disorganized that's happening. and it's, truth be told, the most misunderstood of the attachment styles, the most painful, and the most hopeful pattern we're going to talk about. I have quite a few friends that are disorganized, and it's like its own kind of hell. But the reason I say hopeful is because once you understand fully what's actually happening in your nervous system and within your body, then everything actually does start to make sense. And when things start to make sense, you can finally start to heal them and then you start to feel safe and da-da-da-da-da-da. And it's the same as like when I talk about people and say, we do this out of safety. We do this to find safety. And people will be like, that's bullshit. That's a crack a shit. It's like, no, no, no, no. You're right. It's not an excuse. None of this is an

2:50.9

excuse for bad behavior, and none of this is an excuse to be like, oh, yeah, just act however

2:53.9

you want. But's not an excuse. None of this is an excuse for bad

3:07.6

behavior or none of this is an excuse to be like, oh, yeah, just act however you want. But it is an explanation, right? You guys asking all the time, why? Why do they do this? Why do they do this? And the reason I always kind of clap back and go, does the why matter? Is because you guys are asking that to avoid dealing with the uncomfortable pain and what's coming up for you. And it's okay, right? You're

3:06.9

human. We all do it.

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