@stephanie__rigg: Instead of responding to their mixed messages by trying to locate the truth, zoom out and ask yourself: do I want to be investing in a connection that feels like a puzzle to solve? Sometimes, the FACT of the mixed messages tells you a lot more than the content of those messages — being that this person is all over the place, doesn't know what they want, and can't (or won't) show up for you. Seeing that for what it is rather than trying to solve it, is how you step out of the pattern. That's the work! Clip from Ep 285 of On Attachment - listen wherever you get your podcasts.