Why did this happen when he showed all of this initial interest and then faded away?

And what did I do wrong in trying to assert my boundary?

Have you felt someone in recent memory or very recently in your life pull away?

What was your reaction to them pulling away?

In fact, what do you feel was the reason that they pulled away in the first place?

I'm going to tell you a quick story about someone who came to me about someone pulling away.

And what they did, and I'm going to show you a very, very common three-part pattern that happens in situations like these.

And as I go through each of these three parts, I want you to just see where you might be able to see your own pattern aligning with that.

Because it might be that you see exactly this pattern show up frequently in your life.

The woman who came to me told me a story of a marriage that she had recently left.

An eight-year marriage which for five of those eight years had become devoid of passion.

There was no sex. There was no real intimacy or romance.

It was essentially a relationship of two roommates.

And she left that relationship, went back out there into the dating scene,

and then met a guy that she felt an intense chemistry with.

Now, in feeling all of this chemistry and the excitement of it and how important that felt,

she suddenly started to give an awful lot to this situation.

And she said herself that the text messages from her got longer and longer,

and his messages got shorter and shorter.

There was a strong initial interest from him, but it started to fade.

And as it faded, as she felt him pulling away, she felt this urge to make it work.

Then, when she happened to see that he was hanging out with another woman,

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