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The Terri Cole Show

772 Why You Keep Getting Ghosted (and What the Father Wound Has to Do With It)

The Terri Cole Show

Terri Cole

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Relationships

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been ghosted, breadcrumbed, or found yourself stuck in yet another situationship, wondering, How did I end up here again?

If so, you are not alone, and nothing is wrong with you.

In this episode of The Terri Cole Show, we are unpacking what these painful experiences can teach you about your deeper relational patterns, because it's rarely just about that one person who vanished or strung you along.

Read the show notes for today's episode at terricole.com/772

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0:00.0

Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole Show. I am so happy that you are here.

0:06.8

What inspired me to do this episode is someone wrote in about feeling like they were more often than not in some kind of a situation that's either being ghosted by someone else or being breadcrumbed.

0:21.8

Do you guys know what that is? I'll talk more about it in the episode, but it's basically where

0:26.1

someone gives you just enough to keep you coming back for more or stuck in some weird-ass

0:30.2

situation ship wondering, hi, what the heck is wrong with me? And why am I here again? That's, that was her question. And I knew if she was

0:40.5

asking that she couldn't possibly be the only one who's having this experience. And that I wanted to

0:48.0

get into the fact that it's not just the present day things that happen, right? So much of this stuff is blueprint.

0:56.7

So I'm going to be putting it all together, one packing,

0:59.5

why the disappearing acts, if you're dating or in relationships,

1:04.1

why that feels so devastating when it's happening to you,

1:08.5

how they may connect to having a father wound, and more importantly, how you

1:13.4

can break the cycles so you can stop confusing drama with intimacy. All right. So before we get

1:19.3

into it, I just want to say thank you guys. Oh my God, last month was so fun. We were celebrating

1:24.1

10 years of the Cherry Cole show, and it was just a ball.

1:27.9

I know you could be doing a million other things right now, but the fact that you're tuned in

1:30.9

and chilling with me really does warm my heart.

1:33.9

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

1:35.4

If you love the show and you want to support it, it helps me so much.

1:38.5

If you would rate, review, and subscribe.

1:41.4

Subscribe.

1:42.2

Go subscribe.

1:42.9

If you haven't.

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