EP 604: Avoidant Attachment: Why You Pull Away (Attachment Style SOS Series Part 2)
Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
Dr. Morgan Anderson
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Part 2 of the Attachment Style SOS Series! Today I’m breaking down avoidant attachment in a way that finally makes sense through the lens of the nervous system, your early experiences, and the cultural messages that reward emotional distance. If you’ve ever craved connection but shut down the moment it gets close, this episode is going to be a game-changer.
Inside the episode:
- Why your nervous system sees closeness as overwhelm, not safety
- The childhood patterns that taught you to suppress your emotions
- How culture glorifies independence and unintentionally reinforces avoidance
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing |
| 0:27.6 | you exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. |
| 0:31.6 | You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and love. |
| 0:35.8 | Buckle up and let's get vulnerable. Welcome to Let's Get Vulnerable. I'm your |
| 0:44.0 | host, Dr. Morgan, and today's episode is a good one. We are going to be talking about avoidant |
| 0:50.8 | attachment style. This is for you. If you think you may have a voided attachment, |
| 0:56.3 | you know you're avoidantly attached or if you've ever dated someone with avoidant attachment. |
| 1:01.8 | So this is going to be very, very helpful because there's a ton of misinformation out there. |
| 1:08.9 | And oh my goodness, there's so much out there now |
| 1:11.5 | about like how you can get the avoidant to love you, |
| 1:15.5 | send them this text message to win them back. |
| 1:19.3 | There's just a lot of BS that I see online |
| 1:22.4 | about people with avoidant attachment |
| 1:24.8 | and how to quote unquote get them |
| 1:27.4 | to wanna be in a relationship. |
| 1:29.1 | So I'm very passionate about this today. We got to set the record straight. Let's get you some |
| 1:33.9 | really good information about avoidant attachment so you can understand it. We'll be talking about |
| 1:39.1 | the nervous system context, what's going on in the body. We'll also be talking about the roots. Where did |
| 1:45.3 | avoid an attachment come from? And then we're also going to talk about the cultural context. |
| 1:51.3 | What is going on culturally and how this also has an impact on this style. So if you pull away |
| 1:59.7 | the moment that things get close, if you crave connection, |
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