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Relationships and intimacy

When you can't build lasting relationships or it feels frightening to get close.

inability to build lasting relationshipsrepeating patterns in choosing partnersloss of interest after getting closefear of intimacyfear of being abandoned

Sometimes relationships just don't work out: the partners change but the script stays the same. Or the opposite — as soon as closeness appears, so does the urge to withdraw. Early attachment experiences and the fear of being abandoned or “engulfed” often lie behind this.

How I work with this request

In individual work we explore your usual patterns of choosing partners and your reactions to closeness. The goal is not to “learn techniques” but to understand the root and gain a new inner experience in which intimacy is no longer a threat.

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