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Hey everyone. Welcome back to Jillian on Love. Today I speak and coach a woman who is having a tremendous amount of anxiety because she's in a relationship that's going very well but as they

transition out of the honeymoon stage into the more relaxed committed stage of

the relationship she's feeling the intense need for a lot of reassurance

and she's having a lot of intrusive thoughts about the relationship ending now you might think that she's anxiously attached the thing is she's having a lot of intrusive thoughts about the relationship ending.

Now, you might think that she's anxiously attached.

The thing is, she's never experienced this ever in her life.

And this really is not an example of an attachment style as much as it is just fear.

And so I help her move through this, this fear and how to deal with the anxiety and

also how to better communicate with him. But if I'm honest, there's one thing that I wish that I had

added to this, which I didn't, which is that, you know, sometimes when we get the thing that we

really want, we get that great

person, we have that great relationship, and we start to get in our heads that then we're going to

lose it. We forget that we have to just be so grateful. Sometimes we just have to be grateful

for getting what it is that we've always wanted.

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