What Happens When Anxious & Avoidant Partners Marry? | Healing Attachment in Marriage
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Are you in a relationship where one partner craves connection and the other needs space? š This episode explores what happens when anxious attachment and avoidant attachment meet in marriageāand how healing, growth, and intimacy are still possible.
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As a certified life coach and creative entrepreneur, Ellen Broen shares her personal journey through the anxious-avoidant dance in marriage. Learn how she and her husband moved from constant miscommunication to nervous system healing, shared language, and emotional safety. Whether you lean anxious or avoidant, this episode offers tools for healing your relationship, deepening intimacy, and understanding your partner's nervous system.
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š Key Takeaways
š Name the Pattern: Understand how identifying your anxious or avoidant attachment pattern is the first step toward healing in marriage.
š§ Create a Shared Map: Learn how nervous system healing comes from communication and predictabilityānot perfection.
ā¤ļø Prioritize the Relationship Over the Moment: Safety grows when we shift from proving who's right to protecting connection.
𤲠Practice Non-Demanding Presence: Deep intimacy doesnāt always require words. Reconnect by simply being with your partner.
š§ Honor Each Other's Nervous System: True relationship safety happens when both timelines are respectedānot rushed.
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