EP 334: Is it Love Addiction or an Anxious Attachment Style?
Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
Dr. Morgan Anderson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This episode was inspired by a conversation I overheard from two women.
They were talking about: “Love Addiction and Sex Addiction.”
Is it really an addiction, or is it your attachment style?
Oftentimes anxious attachment FEELS like an addiction.
Inside this episode I unpack:
- Anxious Attachment Strategies for Reassurance
- Anxious / Avoidant Relationship Traps
- The challenges faced by anxiously attached folks when seeking reassurance
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Want a deeper dive into today’s episode? Check out this summary:
Reassurance is vital for those with an anxious attachment style, as it helps them feel secure and valued in their relationships. However, obtaining it can be challenging, particularly when paired with avoidantly attached partners who may struggle to provide the emotional support required.
This dynamic can lead to a cycle of seeking reassurance through different means, such as sex, which may ultimately be mistaken for love addiction. While the attraction between anxiously attached and avoidantly attached partners is strong, they find it challenging to fulfill each other's emotional needs. Understanding this dynamic is essential to break free from the cycle and create healthier relationships and attachment patterns.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable Podcast with me your host Dr Morgan Anderson clinical psychologist relationship |
| 0:16.1 | coach love expert creator of the ESL relationship method and athletic wear connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise |
| 0:27.0 | yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life. |
| 0:34.0 | Each week, two episodes will air |
| 0:36.0 | featuring expert advice, live coaching, |
| 0:40.0 | and tips showing you exactly how to improve your life and attract great relationships. |
| 0:46.0 | You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and loved. |
| 0:51.0 | So buckle up and let's get vulnerable. Do you feel like you keep |
| 0:56.4 | dating people who won't commit and you've struggled in your dating life you've |
| 1:01.3 | gone through all these breakups or maybe you've even struggled? in your |
| 1:03.1 | breakups or maybe you've even struggled to |
| 1:05.9 | consistently date and stay in the dating game and you are actually the one who struggles to |
| 1:11.7 | commit and let your walls down. I know how exhausting |
| 1:16.9 | this can be. When you have this desire on your heart that you really want that partner, that best friend, that person to build. your |
| 1:25.0 | dating life is just going nowhere and you can't see a life with |
| 1:27.0 | and yet your dating life is just going nowhere |
| 1:30.0 | and you can't seem to find a person to build a healthy relationship with. |
| 1:36.0 | I just know how frustrating that is and I was able to take everything I know from clinical psychology and attachment theory research and NLP belief, and build a program that can help you no matter what your past has been, |
| 1:59.8 | even if you've never had a healthy relationship before in your life, |
| 2:04.9 | this program will help you become the securely attached, |
| 2:11.5 | healthy, high self-worth, |
| 2:14.4 | version of you who effortlessly attracts |
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