@scott.austin.martin: One of the fastest ways to destroy attraction in a relationship is to make your partner responsible for your self-worth. When you need constant reassurance that you are enough, every disagreement feels like rejection. Every boundary feels like abandonment. Every moment of distance feels like proof you are not loved. That is not your partner failing you. That is an old wound filtering everything that happens between you. Here is the hard truth: no amount of reassurance can permanently heal a belief that was formed long before your partner arrived. It might soothe you for a moment. But the wound will keep asking to be fed. You will need more proof, more validation, more reassurance because the source has never actually been addressed. Your partner can support your healing. They cannot become your nervous system. The more you ask someone else to carry the responsibility of making you feel okay, the less capacity they have to simply love you. The relationship slowly shifts from connection to emotional management. And attraction fades under that weight. Real intimacy begins the moment you stop asking someone else to solve a wound they didn't create. Healing is not becoming independent of love. It is becoming responsible for your own emotional stability so that love becomes something you freely receive, not something you desperately need in order to believe you are enough. Link in bio for my books and courses #nervoussystem #secureattachment#relationshipadvice #emotionalcapacity #relationships

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