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Anxious/Preoccupied attachment - how can you help/heal/resolve this? Have you?

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Backinthedress · 13/06/2024 10:20

Starting therapy next week, but in the meantime I'm desperately searching for things I can do to help myself before I push my beloved DP away so hard with my shitty behaviour that he doesn't come back. I've downloaded a bunch of meditations and am trying to take up some of the hobbies I dropped when we got together and I turned into the neurotic nightmare I seem to have become. Is there anything else practical I can do?

Have you been through this? Can you give me some hope that one day I might actually believe he really does love me and won't leave me?

OP posts:
Bittenonce · 13/06/2024 17:46

You're afraid he doesn't love you, will leave you? So you've become over anxious, neurotic, dropped hobbies etc just to focus on him / you as a couple? Have I got that right??
Therapy might help I guess (can't get enthusiastic about it as it's not for me, but we're all different): In practical terms, I'd only say you're right to spend time focussing on other things, the things (and people?) you dropped. It's good for you, and also for him - I'd hate a gf who had no other focus.
But alongside that, given that you're going to spend time doing things away from him - put in effort towards making your time together good and interesting, rather than worrying about it turning bad.
If you can both do that, it won't turn bad.
Give him a hug and plan something fun for the weekend

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