Signs Of Progress & Healthy Relationship With An Avoidant
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: attachment, relationships
The way you connect with others really can change for the better, and it's important to know when you're headed in the right direction. If you or your partner has an avoidant attachment style—aka shutdown in conflict, emotional distancing, etc.—this one's for you. Listen in.
Not sure what avoidant attachment is? Check out A Man's Guide To Avoidant Attachment: https://lnk.to/3anA6L
(00:00:00) - Intro and what you need to understand first
(00:02:25) - Sign number one: more emotional availability
(00:04:41) - Number two: Better conflict navigation
(00:07:01) - Number three: you aren’t debating ending the relationship at the first sign of trouble
(00:08:01) - Number four: a deeper sense of trust
(00:10:08) - Number five: their needs are more clear, AND they’re moving to meet your needs more often
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| 0:00.0 | All right, team, how do you know that you're in a healthy relationship with an |
| 0:12.7 | avoidant person? |
| 0:13.7 | Or if you are the avoidant person, how do you know that things are moving in the right |
| 0:18.1 | direction? |
| 0:18.8 | We all need some progress points. We all need to know and be able to identify when things are moving in the right direction. We all need some progress points. We all need to know |
| 0:22.0 | and be able to identify when things are moving towards a more secure oriented relationship. |
| 0:28.0 | So this video is going to lay out some very specific points and markers, landmarkers along |
| 0:34.5 | the way that you can look for with you and your avoidant partner or as the |
| 0:39.2 | avoidant partner in the relationship. These are the sides. Before we dive in, don't forget to subscribe |
| 0:44.6 | to the channel if you are not already because as I noticed, about 70% of you tune into these videos |
| 0:50.7 | but are not subscribed on Spotify or YouTube. |
| 0:54.3 | So do not forget to do so. |
| 0:55.8 | We have all the videos on both Spotify and YouTube, so check it out. |
| 1:01.0 | All right, let's dive straight in. |
| 1:02.9 | The first thing that you need to know and just be reminded of is that the avoidant person, |
| 1:08.2 | the avoidant partner, is really over-indexing on self-reliance and under-indexing on |
| 1:15.7 | relational trust, safety, and reliance. So the avoidant person kind of says internally that |
| 1:22.3 | the framework, the dialogue that's happening inside is it's safer to trust me and rely on me than it is to trust you |
| 1:30.4 | or the relationship. And so that causes the avoidant to pull away, shut down, close down, |
| 1:37.0 | not really sort of trust, not open up, not express sometimes. They might, if you're with an |
| 1:43.3 | avoiding person, you might feel like you don't really |
| 1:45.3 | know where they stand a lot of the times or how they're feeling about certain things or what they |
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