#61: Stop Getting Attached Too Quickly In Relationships

The Inner Child Podcast

Gloria Zhang, MA

Ptsd, Attachment Styles, Commitment, Self-improvement, Childhood Trauma, Health & Fitness, Therapist, Inner Child Healing, Education, C-ptsd, Codependency, Alternative Health, Self Love, Dating, Asian Canadian, Relationships, Codependent Relationships, Mental Health

4.8 • 551 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Do you get attached too quickly in relationships or become intimate before you're ready? Or even worse, have you ever ended up in a hazy three-year relationship with the first person who gave you attention, or even *shudders* someone you don't even like? If this sounds like you, then you might be experiencing "Premature Attachment", a survival mechanism you picked up from childhood! And in today's episode, I’ll be talking about what it feels like, why sex & intimacy can feel confusi...

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0:00.0	You're listening to The Inner Child Podcast. Do you get attached too quickly in a relationship and sometimes realize you don't even like the person, but somehow it turned into a three-year relationship?
0:12.0	Well, today I'm going to talk to you about premature attachment. And if you've never really been in a healthy relationship before, you may not even know what real love actually feels like.
0:21.5	Now, if you're not careful, you can end up in a 20-year marriage with the wrong person,
0:27.2	wake up one day and think, why did I stay so long?
0:31.1	So in this episode, I'm really going to break down why some people develop premature attachment.
0:37.1	Three telling signs that you might be attached and not actually in love.
0:41.9	Plus, at the end, I'm going to guide you through a powerful exercise that we're going to do
0:46.4	together to determine whether you should stay in a relationship or not.
0:51.9	Lots of juicy stuff right after this intro.
1:03.5	Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang, and after 10 years of struggling in toxic relationships, I attracted
1:09.9	the love of my life by healing my inner
1:12.1	child. This podcast is your weekly dose of my expertise as a therapist and dating relationship
1:18.7	coach for high achievers. Learn tips to overcome low self-worth, emotional baggage, and
1:25.2	childhood trauma so that you too can step into your power and
1:29.1	attract the love you desire. Welcome to the Inner Child Podcast. Hello, friends, welcome back to
1:37.1	the Inner Child podcast. I think I'm speaking to my anxiously attached folks today. And that's okay. We're going to help you unpack
1:46.3	exactly what's going on with all of this premature attachment stuff. And maybe you didn't even
1:52.1	know that there was a name for it. So my throat's a little bit dry right now. I just batched out
1:59.0	like four or five episodes all at once. Pam, my manager's been
2:03.7	really awesome at helping me bang out these episodes in a timely fashion. And it's just really great
2:09.0	having a team who's got your back. But of course, I'm going to need a swig of water for this one.
2:15.3	Hope you're all doing well. Hope you've been enjoying these last few weeks of summer if you're listening to this as it's just coming out.
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