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If someone watching or listening is in a relationship with someone for a long time that they really love, they care about,

and they have this pattern of distancing themselves emotionally, shutting down, or kicking and screaming.

What can they do to support them in discovering tools, creating awareness around it,

finding a therapist or a coach to support them and growing.

I think one of the most complicated things

is you have two individuals trying to navigate a relationship where we both have our stuff from the

past because what often happens in those moments when someone's kicking and screaming or

detaching chances are it could be activating mild lived experience, right?

So if someone removes themselves, distanced, just like my mom once did, to navigate whatever it is that they're feeling a difficult conversation that we're having something not to do with me at all

Difficult experience they're having at work or with their family

inherently in their distance. It's going to activate me.

It's going to bring me right back to in childhood when my mom was emotionally distant or

when she was giving me the silent treatment to express her, you know,

disappointment at whatever I was doing in that moment, and it's going to then activate the way I deal with it.

So what happens is we have two people kind of ever kind of cycling through these threat-based responses and neither of them are able to kind of

return to that ground at state of presence.

So the best thing I think that we can do is, and I have a lot of tools not only to begin to self-identify which state of nervous system activation you're in so that you can begin to regulate yourself. Really helpful and this is outside of even romantic partnerships for your friends,

for your family members, can be really helpful to have the awareness of signs and signals

that they're in a state of emotional system or nervous system activation

because sometimes when we understand that oh this person is you know

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