#170: Dating Q&A: Early Dating with Anxious Attachment, Navigating Texting Anxiety, Not Attaching Too Quickly, Prioritising Values Over Chemistry
In this Q&A episode, I’m answering your most common questions about early dating—particularly through the lens of anxious attachment. If dating feels like a minefield of overthinking, anxiety, and emotional highs and lows, this episode is for you.
We’ll explore:
Early dating dynamics: Navigating the vulnerability and uncertainty that comes with getting to know someone new.
Not attaching too quickly: Why it happens for those with anxious attachment and how to pace yourself emotionally.
Texting anxiety: How to manage the discomfort of waiting for replies and keep yourself grounded.
Values over chemistry: Why prioritising what truly matters can help you avoid unhealthy patterns and feel more secure.
Navigating Early Dating as an Anxiously Attached Person
Dating can be a whirlwind of emotions, especially for those who lean towards anxious attachment. The early stages of dating bring forth various challenges that can trigger insecurities and make the experience more stressful than it needs to be. However, understanding these dynamics and equipping oneself with practical tools can help ease the process. Here’s how to navigate early dating as someone with anxious attachment, from handling texting anxiety to prioritising values over fleeting chemistry.
Managing the Urge to Attach Quickly
One common experience for those with anxious attachment is the tendency to get attached very quickly. This often involves fantasising about the future with someone they've just met, leading to heightened feelings of attachment before truly knowing the person.
Reminder: You Don’t Know Them Yet
It’s crucial to remind yourself in the early dating stages that you don’t fully know the person yet. Although the initial connection might feel strong, it’s essential to recognise that it’s based on a limited interaction. Both parties tend to present the best versions of themselves in the beginning, which can create an idealised image.
Slow Down the Physical Intimacy
Holding off on physical intimacy can also be beneficial. Since being intimate often amplifies attachment, postponing this until there’s a clearer picture of mutual interest and compatibility can help manage the intensity of attachment.
Self-Responsibility and Boundaries
Be self-responsible by setting personal boundaries around how quickly you allow yourself to get attached. This might mean consciously pulling back and pacing the relationship to ensure that emotions don’t overshadow rational decision-making.
Navigating a Slow Burn
The early dating stages can be especially challenging when things are moving slowly. The uncertainty and lack of assurance can trigger anxiety and make one feel the need to fast-track the process.
Comfort in Discomfort
Recognise that the discomfort of not knowing where you stand is a natural part of the early dating process. It’s important to learn how to hold space for this uncertainty without feeling the need to resolve it immediately.
Focus on Self-Care
Continue to prioritise self-care and maintain your normal routines. Engaging in activities that bring joy and spending time with friends can prevent you from becoming overly fixated on the new relationship.
Set Communication Boundaries
Creating boundaries around communication can help manage anxiety. For instance, if you find yourself constantly checking for messages, setting specific times to check your phone can prevent the anticipation from overwhelming your day.
Balancing Chemistry and Values
It’s easy to get swept up by physical attraction and chemistry, but ensuring that your values align is crucial for long-term compatibility.
Understand Your Values
Clearly define your values and non-negotiables before entering the dating scene. Knowing what you need and what you’re not willing to compromise on can help you stay grounded when chemistry is high.
Act on Intention, Not Impulse
While it’s natural to feel strong attraction, it’s important not to let it cloud your judgement. Stay intentional about assessing compatibility beyond surface-level attributes by focusing on your predefined values and needs.
Validate Your Standards
Trust and validate your standards. Compromising on your core values for the sake of chemistry can lead to dissatisfaction down the line. Prioritising values ensures that the relationship is built on a solid foundation.
Tackling Texting Anxiety
Texting anxiety is a significant challenge for those with anxious attachment, as it can create a cycle of tension and constant validation-seeking.
Recognise the Addictive Nature
Understand that texting can create an addictive loop, where each response provides a dopamine hit, followed by anxiety during the waiting period. Recognising this pattern is the first step to managing it.
Establish Healthy Boundaries
Set clear boundaries around texting. For example, telling your date that you’ll be putting your phone on do not disturb during work hours can create a sense of structure. This reduces the anticipatory anxiety of waiting for a response and helps maintain focus on daily tasks.
Communicate Needs Directly
Communicating directly can also prevent misunderstandings. Letting your date know your communication preferences can set the tone for healthier interactions and reduce anxiety around guessing their intentions.
Focus on Self-Trust
Build self-trust by honouring your boundaries and recognising that you don’t need constant communication to secure someone’s interest. Time and space don’t diminish the connection if it’s genuinely there.
Conclusion
Navigating early dating with anxious attachment presents unique challenges, but it also offers an opportunity for personal growth. By understanding your patterns, setting boundaries, prioritising values, and managing texting anxiety, you can create a more balanced and fulfilling dating experience. Remember, it’s about staying true to yourself and cultivating relationships that align with your authentic needs and values. Warmth, patience, and self-compassion will guide you through the journey towards healthier attachment and loving relationships.
Questions for Discussion & Reflection
Do you find that you often get attached too quickly in early dating? What are some specific situations where you noticed this happening?
How do you typically react when someone you're interested in does not text back immediately? What feelings or thoughts come up for you, and how do you manage them?
Are you clear on your nonnegotiables and deal-breakers in a relationship? Write a list of your top 3 nonnegotiables and 3 deal-breakers and reflect on how well you've adhered to them in past relationships.
Reflect on a time when you got swept up in chemistry and looks. Looking back, how might focusing on values and alignment have changed the outcome?
What are some practical steps you can take to slow down the pace of your attachment in early dating?
When you feel anxiety around texting in the early stages of dating, what self-care practices can you implement to soothe yourself instead of seeking instant reassurance?
How do you differentiate between a healthy boundary and a defence mechanism in your interactions with potential partners? Do you notice any patterns?
Reflect on a past dating experience where you felt unsupported by your partner's responsiveness. What would you do differently now to ensure your emotional needs are met?
Are you able to sit with discomfort and uncertainty in dating without rushing to 'fix' it? What strategies could help you become more comfortable with this ambiguity?
How do your attachment patterns impact your ability to stay present in early dating? Explore how mindful practices could help you stay focused on the here and now rather than future fantasies.
Use these prompts to dive deeper into your attachment patterns and how they shape your dating experiences.
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Episode Transcript
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In today's episode, we're talking all about anxious attachment and dating. So for a lot of people with anxious attachment, dating is a real challenge. It's a struggle. It very much brings you face to face with a lot of your triggers and a lot of your sensitivities. It really tests you, in ways that can make it all feel like a big swirling pit of anxiety and stress and overthinking and uncertainty. And I know that it's a real struggle for a lot of people.
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So in today's episode, I'm going to be answering some questions that I received on Instagram around the topic of anxious attachment and dating, how to navigate things like the pacing of dating as an anxiously attached person. I think anxiously attached people tend to struggle with taking it slow and knowing what to do with that kind of slow burn at the start of early dating. The instinct is very much to jump ahead and try and, know, shortcut all of that early stage where it's a bit uncertain and unclear. I'm also gonna be talking a little bit about texting anxiety, which I know is a big one, and also around being really values driven rather than getting swept up in chemistry and looks and all of those things, and maybe looking past an incompatibility or the fact that it's not really an aligned partnership or an aligned pick for you. So those are gonna be some of the questions that I'm chatting through today. And hopefully, we'll be able to give you some reassurance, some guidance, some practical tools if you are someone who leans towards anxious attachment, and you are currently in the dating pool, and struggling to navigate that and needing a little bit of help. So that's what we're gonna be talking about today. Before I do a couple of quick announcements, a reminder that healing anxious attachment is now open.
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As I shared last week, I've decided to transition the course to an evergreen model, meaning it is open for enrollment at any time. But today is the last day of early bird pricing, so the price will be rising tomorrow. As I said, you can join whenever now. At least I'll be trialing that model as an alternative to having set launches throughout the year. So you can sign up whenever you want. But if you are interested in joining the course and you'd like to take advantage of the early bird pricing, today's the day to do that as the price will be going up by $100 tomorrow. 2nd quick announcement is just a reminder about my Homecoming Mastermind. So for those who are unfamiliar, Homecoming is my most advanced level program.
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It's a 6 month mentorship. It's the most intimate way to work with me at the moment as I'm not offering 1 on 1 coaching. You do get 1 on 1 access to me within the mastermind via voice message. So for that 6 month period of the program, if anything comes up for you, you can reach out to me and have a direct line there for support. As well as a monthly masterclass led by me, 2 monthly group calls, a community space, and free access to all of my programs, which in itself is valued at almost $2,000 So there's stacks of value in this program. And there is an extended 9 month payment plan available at the moment as well. For For anyone who is interested in homecoming, I've opened up a few spots for discovery calls. So if you wanna jump on a call with me and just confirm that it's a good fit for you as a program, I have offered up a few spots for that.
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So if you're interested in that, if you could just send an email to my team support@stephanierigg.com, and we can tee that up. Okay. So with that out of the way, let's dive into these questions around anxious attachment and dating. So the first one is how do I stop myself from getting attached too quickly? So I think this is one that a lot of anxiously attached people will relate to. The tendency to go from 0 to a100 in the blink of an eye. You connect with someone and maybe you've only had fairly limited interactions with them, but all of a sudden you're, you're leaping ahead to imagining what it's gonna be like when you introduce them to your family and when you move in together and what are our kids' names gonna be. You're really assessing their suitability as your life partner on the first date or even before the first date. And I think that tendency to skip ahead is very much a trope of anxious attachment.
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And I think that's really essential to answering this question of, you know, how do I maybe pull myself back a little? How do I pace myself a little more steadily rather than getting attached too quickly? I think reminding yourself that you don't know this person. When you are in those very early stages, maybe you've only had limited interactions with them. Maybe you've been messaging back and forth. Maybe you've been on a date or 2. You don't know them. As much as you might feel like, oh my god, I know you. We have such an amazing connection. You don't know them.
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A very, very limited piece of them that they have presented to you with a view to being charming and being their best selves. As you have them, it's not a criticism of the person. It's just the reality of the context of dating, that we put our best foot forward and we're trying to impress someone, we're trying to get them to like us. I think we all do that and that's fine, but I think we have to go in with an awareness that both we and they are doing that. And so when you find yourself, like, totally smitten with them on the first date, just coming back to, like, I don't really know this person. That doesn't mean that you have to totally discount how you're feeling towards them, but just being wary of the the chemical cocktail that is carrying all of that. And that is leading you to feel very attached to them, but really, you are attaching yourself to a fantasy and a projection. And, obviously, at that early stage, we tend to idealise someone and put them on a pedestal and we can't imagine that they have any faults.
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And even if there were any signs of faults, we'd probably look past them anyway and just focus on all of the lovely things that we're very excited about. So just bearing in mind that, like, this person, like every other person, is going to have things that you can't stand, that you just haven't seen yet. So they are not this perfect person. Your whole life doesn't depend on getting them to like you back. If they don't like you past the 2nd or third date, you will be fine. Because again, your life existed long before you ever met this person and it will exist long after, if there is an after. So just, like, bringing yourself back to reality as much as possible. That won't necessarily make the feelings go away, all of that chemical rash and attachment, But you can be really self responsible in anchoring yourself and just reminding yourself, like, okay.
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Yes. I recognize that I'm doing that thing where I kind of go full speed into romanticising, attaching, all of that. And I could consciously choose to slow myself down to remind myself that it's okay. I don't actually know this person. My whole life doesn't depend on this relationship working out, on them liking me. My sense of self doesn't need to be tied to how this goes, All of those things. Another practical one that I'll say is, if you know that you are someone who attaches very quickly, and that being intimate tends to ramp things up and really amplify your attachment as it will for most people, maybe hold off on sleeping together until you know them better, until there's clear reciprocity, until you're confident in trusting that they are equally interested in you. It's really easy when you've attached to someone and there's an opportunity to be intimate on maybe, like, the second or the third date to think that that'll lock it in and that that's the opportunity and that that's your kind of window to really cement the bond and the connection.
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And of course, there's a lot of desire and attraction and all of that wrapped up in it. But just be mindful that in doing that, you are going to seriously dial up your attachment to them almost certainly. That is a biological thing that's gonna happen. And to be clear, I'm not suggesting any, like, rules around this. I'm not giving out, like, dating coach advice on, don't sleep with them before the whatever date. None of that. But just know yourself and be self responsible. So if you know that you are going to become obsessed with them if you sleep together, maybe don't sleep together until you are comfortable with being really attached to them.
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And that might come a little bit later. You might decide to hold off, and trust that the right person who's a good partner, who's a secure partner, isn't gonna kinda get bored and lose interest if you haven't slept together. You don't need to do that in order to kinda maintain their interest and attraction. Okay. The next question is kind of the flip side of the first question in some respects. And it's any advice on how to navigate early dating when things are moving very slowly? So for anxiously attached people, the slow moving stage is very hard. Right? Because you, as I said, want to skip through that part where it's uncertain, where you don't know what they're up to, where you don't know really what they're doing, where you haven't met their friends maybe or you just don't have visibility over their life. You don't have the right or entitlement to expect that they're gonna message you back right away because you're not their partner.
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They're seeing other people, all of these things. That is a very, very uncomfortable zone for anxiously attached people to hang out in because everything in your being says, like, connect, attach, and eliminate uncertainty. That's how I get to safety. So spending a lot of time in that early stage where you can't necessarily guarantee that, and probably you have this lurking awareness that they might still be dating other people and that you are not their number one priority, whether romantically or just in life. Right? Like, they're doing other things. They're not maybe thinking about you all day, every day. That's probably gonna be pretty triggering for your worthiness wounds, your wounds around not feeling prioritised, the parts of you that feel like you need to work really hard to earn someone's attention and affection and approval. Just recognising and being comfortable with the fact that it's not all about you, and the relationship isn't locked down yet, and there are no guarantees, and that, you know, rejection or loss of the connection is a very real possibility, all of that's gonna be hard.
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I think as always, just seeing that for what it is and recognising it is a very helpful starting point. So often, we feel things, we feel anxiety, we feel the stress, and we don't really give it much more thought. We just follow the feeling and we act accordingly. I think we can as we grow, we wanna develop this ability to notice the feeling and go, Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? Look at me feeling this urge to lock it down or to leapfrog over this stage of uncertainty. That makes so much sense. Of course, I want that. Of course, this is uncomfortable for me. Of course, I'm struggling to be in this liminal in between space when I am really excited about someone.
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But all of these risks are here, all of these vulnerabilities here that I can't necessarily control for or or mitigate the risk of. That all makes so much sense. It makes sense. This is uncomfortable for me. And my work here is to linger in the discomfort, support myself through it rather than panic and try and make it go away, which I think is the default mode. So the more we can practice that comforting ourselves being with that learning to hold the discomfort and the anxiety without racing to try and eliminate it or fix it or solve it, that's a really huge growth edge for a lot of us. And practically speaking, that looks like just continuing to take care of yourself, to do the things that you would do in your life, to make plans with other people, with friends, to continue with all of your healthy routines, all of these things. Put boundaries around your communication with them or your phone use or whatever.
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We're gonna come to that in a minute when we talk about texting anxiety. But if you know that, like, you're checking your phone like a maniac every 3 seconds to see if they've messaged you, Put boundaries around that. That's that's your job to be self responsible there, rather than just being like, well, I can't help it because I'm anxious. Okay? Your anxiety is feedback, but it doesn't have to be in control of your life. And it's your job to really step into more of an internal leadership role and consciously choose how you wanna show up. And you will veer off course and that's okay. You just have to course correct and come back to centre and go, okay. What am I noticing? What am I feeling? What do I need? How can I support myself best in this moment? And how can I keep showing up as my best self, as my most secure self? What would the secure version of me do in this situation? All of those sorts of questions are a really good way to bring yourself back when you notice all of that anxiety creeping up in that early stage when things feel a bit uncertain and unsure.
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Okay, the next question is how do you stop being swayed by looks and chemistry and focus on actual values, alignment, and what you're truly looking for? So again, this is a big one, but I think what it ultimately comes down to is it's sort of a similar principle. You can feel things and you can't stop yourself from feeling things. You can't stop yourself from being super attracted to someone and feeling intense chemistry with them. You can will that away all you want, but you're gonna feel it. The growth is in not just impulsively acting on whatever you feel. And that's true for anxiety. It's true for chemistry. Right? So being really, really clear.
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And I always say to people, do this work before you've got someone in front of you that you're super excited about and you're already attaching to. Be very clear around what am I looking for? What are my values? What am I available for? What am I not available for? What are my nonnegotiables? What are my deal breakers? I frame nonnegotiables as positive things that we absolutely need. So you might say, it is nonnegotiable for me that I'm able to have difficult conversations with a partner without it devolving into a a fight or loss of contact or loss of connection or something like that. So it's something that you actively need. And a deal breaker is something that cannot be present if you are going to be in that relationship. So you might have it as a deal breaker that you don't wanna be in a relationship with someone who takes drugs or someone who doesn't wanna be monogamous. Right? Like, these things that are clear lines in the sand that you can just go unequivocally, that's not gonna work for me. And I don't need to argue with you about it.
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If that's something that you want and it's something that I don't, then that's the end of the road for us. I think so many anxiously attached people get themselves stuck in situations where they haven't been clear with themselves where their lines are, what they need, what their non negotiables and deal breakers are. And then they attach to someone, and they start trying to reverse engineer it and questioning their values, questioning their deal breakers, questioning themselves for, should I be comfortable with this thing that I'm not really comfortable with? Because the person that I'm dating is telling me that it's not that big of a deal, but it is a big deal to me. And so I end up arguing with myself and with them about it when I should have just been clearer with myself from the outset and backed myself on what I know to be true for me. So don't make that mistake because you'll save yourself a whole lot of drama, a whole lot of headache and heartache by just knowing yourself and validating what is true for you in terms of what your values are. And then it's over to you to be self responsible, to really build self trust by following through on what you say is important to you and not being blinded by these vanity things, like looks and chemistry and stuff that is not really a great litmus test for compatibility, necessarily. Again, it's not to say that you have to discount physical attraction. I think that that should be an element of of relationships.
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Right? I don't think you have to persist with someone where there is absolutely zero attraction and you just know deep down that you don't find them attractive. But I think that being solely guided by that or primarily guided by that in the face of glaring incompatibilities in other departments, that's where we really come unstuck. So it's not like chemistry is a bad thing. It just can't be the main criterion that you're using to make these decisions around the viability of a connection. Okay. And the last question that I'm gonna answer is, in early dating, I'm struggling around anxiety with texting. Please help. Okay.
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Texting anxiety is such a big thing. I recorded an episode for probably about 2 years ago now about texting anxiety, and it actually went a little bit viral. So obviously, there's there's a lot of appetite for this conversation. And I think we need to recognize that texting and everything else to do with our phones is designed to be addictive. Right? The notifications, the short messages, it's like being drip fed reassurance. For anxiously attached people, it's like, I feel connected to you every time I get a text and then I fall off the cliff into the void. And so it just takes you on these big waves of dopamine peaks and troughs. Right? And every time I hear from you, I'm gonna get this spike.
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And then I send a reply and then we're back in the void, right? We're back in the space. And I don't know whether I'm gonna get a message from you in 1 minute or 2 hours. And so I'm in this constant state of anticipatory anxiety until I next hear from you, right? That is an absolute hellscape for anxious attachment. Right? It is a recipe for disaster. Because, obviously, as I said, that's designed to be addictive for anyone, same way with our devices and the notifications and the little, you know, red alerts and everything like that. The sounds, all of it is designed to be addictive. When you are someone who fixates obsessively on needing to feel connected and reassured and struggles so much with feeling any fleeting sense of disconnection or uncertainty, having, you know, this constant schedule of intermittent reinforcement around connection is so, so challenging for you because it is going to be so, so addictive. It will consume all of your energy and attention.
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It is like playing the slot machine and doing so with a very, very powerful system being your attachment system. So recognising that the odds are stacked against you as far as texting goes and the anxiety that you are experiencing around texting someone in the early dating phase when you are so hyped up on all of those chemicals of attraction, you are going to be fighting against some powerful forces to not be super anxious about it. Okay? And particularly, if things start to shift, I've talked before about how anxiously attached people and the tendency towards hypervigilance and hypersensitivity to any temperature shifts in the communication. All of that means that if they've been texting you every 5 minutes and then all of a sudden there's a change or and they don't reply for 2 hours or they were using certain emojis and then they stopped using those emojis. Or, like, all of these little things that that the average person might not pay much attention to. For anxious attachment, you're, like, super aware and super on high alert to any potential shifts in the direction of less warmth, less enthusiasm, less responsiveness because that feels like the alarm. That feels like the signal of, oh, no. Something bad's happening.
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They're losing interest. What do I do? And you feel really powerless because what can you do other than keep texting them. And that doesn't really solve the problem because you texting them doesn't give you the solution. It's them texting you back, which gives you the reassurance, and you don't have control over that. Right? So it very quickly becomes this powerless one-sided dynamic. And in that space where you're waiting for a response from them, your brain is going to be likely interpreting that silence, that space as very catastrophic, as meaning something's wrong. Maybe they're with someone else. Why haven't they texted back? All of these things.
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Right? So all that to say, like, be responsible. This is the common thread through all of this advice is, like, you need to know yourself and you need to know your pattern and you need to know where the odds are stacked against you in the process and the realities of that process. And you need to help yourself out. So if that means for you messaging someone in the morning and then saying, I'm gonna put my phone on do not disturb today so that I can concentrate at work. Let's chat later. Right? By doing that, you're not in that anticipatory mode of waiting for their next response because you set the boundaries that then allow you to kind of breathe and feel a level of safety and containment. Like, I can go about my day, nothing's wrong. I don't have to read into the fact that I haven't heard from them because I've put the boundary in place.
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There's a reason I haven't heard from them and it's because I have established parameters around that that have provided that level of structure rather than it being this constant open ended conversation where every gap between text feels like this incredibly painful, prolonged pause, question mark, uncertainty zone that is just going to absolutely siphon all of your emotional energy, all of your ability to focus on other things that's gonna keep you tethered to your phone even more than you might already be. None of us need that and it's just not healthy. And it's going to really raise the stakes, right? Because again, this is probably someone you don't know terribly well, And the dopamine rush of all of that is going to hook you in in a way that is disproportionate to the connection and how well you know them, how serious the relationship is. All of a sudden, your body and your nervous system is going to be so invested in something that probably just isn't that big of a deal, that isn't as high stakes as it's going to feel if you allow yourself to ride that roller coaster of constant texting. So that is your job, to be direct in communicating, to be really brave in setting those boundaries and trusting that nothing bad is gonna happen in the 8 hours between the start of my work day and the end of the day when we might touch base again or or whatever. They're not gonna lose interest. As I always say, people actually really respect and are attracted to people who have healthy boundaries. You don't have to be in constant contact with someone in order for them to like you.
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They're not gonna forget that you exist if you have a few hours of space from each other. So just trust that you don't have to be constantly connected in order to secure a relationship to lock it down. Okay. I'm gonna stop there. I hope that that's been helpful for those of you who are navigating the dating phase, and particularly the early dating phase, I know it can be a minefield. I know it can be really challenging. But as I've said through all of those responses, it's really on you to know your patterns, to know where your weak points are, and to plan for it and to have that conscious orienting back to what are my values? What are my choices? How do I want to show up in this situation? And not just blindly following a feeling following an impulse, going down a path that you know, is maybe not aligned because my anxiety told me to, right? Our anxiety is powerful, but it doesn't have to be in the driver's seat. And part of growing is really, you know, recognising it and going, okay.
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Like, you're here and that's okay. That's to be expected. I don't have to read into the fact that I'm feeling anxious because I should expect to feel anxious in this early dating phase because of the way that it triggers my attachment patterns. And I can choose to maybe try something different to what I would do by default. And that's really where we get to grow and create new patterns. So hope that's been helpful. Next week is Christmas. So I will have another episode out probably late next week.
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So it might be a couple days later than usual. I won't be publishing an episode on Christmas day. Wishing you a very, very merry, peace full, restorative Christmas for those who will be celebrating and taking some downtime and sending so much love and thank you as always for the support. I will see you at some point between now and the new year. But until then, thanks so much for joining me.
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Thanks for joining me for this episode of On Attachment. If you wanna go deeper on all things attachment, love, and relationships, you can find me on Instagram @stephanie__rigg or at stephanierigg.com. And if you enjoyed this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a review and a 5 star rating. It really does help so much. Thanks again for being here, and I hope to see you again soon.
Keywords from Podcast Episode
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