Are Anxiously Attached People Better Off Single?
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever walked away from a relationship thinking, “I’m never doing that again,” you won’t want to miss this episode. Heartbreak has a way of creating rigid rules—what you’ll never give, tolerate, or risk again—and those protective habits can quietly block the kind of love you actually want.
You’ll learn how relationship stress can show up in your body, why some people feel lighter and healthier after leaving the wrong dynamic, and the surprising connection between big-hearted, nurturing partners and anxious attachment.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm talking about whether relationships themselves are detrimental to our health. |
| 0:11.0 | And should this mean that we just swear off of dating altogether? |
| 0:15.4 | I'm also talking about the strange connection between nurturing, giving women and anxiously attached men. What do they have in |
| 0:26.1 | common? We're talking about all of this today. I think you're really, really going to enjoy this |
| 0:29.8 | episode if you've been in some difficult relationships. If maybe you feel like they've made you |
| 0:35.1 | feel like you don't want to do it again because you just gave so much |
| 0:37.6 | and it hurt you and you don't want to go through that again. I promise you, this is a very, very |
| 0:43.6 | important 45 minutes for you. Welcome back, everybody to the Love Life podcast. I am Matthew Hussey. |
| 0:57.5 | If you don't know me by now, |
| 1:02.3 | or if you're coming in new, for the last 20 years, I've been working with people at all stages of their love life, millions of people across the world. And I've written two books on the subject, |
| 1:07.5 | two New York Times bestsellers, get the guy back in the day and love life more |
| 1:11.7 | recently in the last two years. And I'm really excited to be back with you today. I'm on my own. |
| 1:19.4 | Not in life, but in this podcast right now. Audrey and Stephen are both not with me. Stephen's back in |
| 1:27.0 | London and traveling back later this week. So I'm |
| 1:30.9 | recording a couple of episodes without him. And Audrey is busy at work with our baby. And so here I |
| 1:40.2 | am all alone on this one. I am nonetheless feeling very enthusiastic about this episode |
| 1:48.0 | because I think it actually is an extremely important one. There was a Reddit post brought to me |
| 1:54.5 | by David, our producer, in the dating or in the women dating over 40 Reddit, subreddit. |
| 2:05.6 | And there was something about this that caught my eye. |
| 2:09.8 | He sent me a few different popular posts. |
| 2:12.3 | And this one from just 12 days ago caught my eye. |
| 2:16.1 | It was someone who titled it physically healthier without an |
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