Ex-partners and mental health: Why dismissive avoidants end up miserable

Dismissive avoidants often don't choose the person who lights them up or stirs something deep inside them. In fact, they usually reject that

Dismissive avoidants reject the one who gets closest, not because of that person’s flaws, but because they cannot reciprocate emotionally

The following video explains what happens with the dismissive avoidant —when they fall in love with someone deeply, truly… and still...

I now understand he was (and still is) a dismissive avoidant, and with that knowledge, so much of his behavior finally makes sense.

Midlife has a way of sneaking up on you. One day, you're simply going through the motions, and the next, you're confronted with an...

If you’ve ever loved someone with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style , you know the pain of watching them sabotage something truly...

The dismissive-avoidant attachment style is a paradox. On one hand, they crave love and connection like anyone else. On the other,...

If you’ve ever been in a relationship—romantic or familial—with a dismissive avoidant , you’ve probably felt the gut-wrenching pain of...

Love should be a place of warmth, connection, and mutual respect. But for those entangled with an avoidant-dismissive partner, love can...

For the longest time, I thought I was battling an illness (a bipolar disorder diagnosed by psychiatrists) - the relentless exhaustion, the f

Seventeen years ago, my sleep was decimated. Not by a physical ailment, not by an external crisis, but by a romantic discard at the hands of

Breaking Free from Dismissive Avoidant Abuse Going back into the past to process the core wound of my suffering—being ruthlessly...

Healing from an Avoidant Dismissive: My Journey I had to take my site down for a while to focus on myself. From the very start of this...

The limerent experience thrives in this liminal space between praise and rejection, hope and despair. Such interactions are devastating

"There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives." It was this sentence that...

Without reading an enormous amount of philosophy then understanding how I've got to this point will be virtually impossible... But......

This will sound bizarre to many people, but it's something Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kierkegaard and others contemplated and something I have...

When I read Dr L's book Living with Limerence it was so jaw-droppingly revealing that I read the entire book in one sitting.

As usual poetry has been very healing. This one by Adelaide Anne Proctor is particularly relevant. Enjoy!