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Loving Someone with Avoidant Attachment

Loving Someone with Avoidant Attachment

GaiusPod 10 Episodes Mar 19, 2026

Loving Someone with Avoidant Attachment is a podcast for people who find themselves in relationships with partners who have an avoidant attachment style. Each episode draws from the book of the same name by Kent Feng Blackwood and translates clinical attachment research into practical, honest guidance for real relationships. The show covers the anxious-avoidant cycle, what goes on inside a partner when they withdraw, how to communicate without triggering a shutdown, and what it genuinely looks like when both people start moving toward a more secure connection.

Episodes

The Dance Nobody Chose But Both Keep Dancing
The Dance Nobody Chose But Both Keep Dancing Mar 19, 2026 00:21:50 There is a cycle running in your relationship. The more you reach, the more they pull back. The more they pull back, the more urgently you reach. Neither of you chose it. Both of you are running it. This episode maps the anxious-avoidant cycle step by step, explains what is happening in each partner's nervous system, and makes the case that a cycle both people run is a cycle both people can ch
What Your Partner Is Actually Doing (And Why)
What Your Partner Is Actually Doing (And Why) Mar 13, 2026 00:08:42 Avoidant attachment is not coldness. It is not indifference. It is a survival strategy built before your relationship began, in a world that taught your partner that needing things was unsafe. This episode explains what dismissive and fearful-avoidant patterns actually look like from the inside, why the withdrawal happens when closeness increases, and what changes when you stop reading the distanc

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