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Is Your Partner (Consciously or Subconsciously) Withholding Affection from You?

By Ira Israel — 2020

Maybe you need an FBI Hostage Negotiator to help release your partner's affection for you?

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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

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C. S. Lewis
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The Avoidant Partner: How to Respond When Your Partner Is Evasive

Healthy relationships are built upon skills emphasizing connection and affirmation. Sometimes, though, a partner may be reluctant to connect, becoming avoidant. This can be especially common when conflicts arise.

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2017
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Why We Go Cold on Our Partners

Going cold on our partners is often a sign not that we have stopped caring, but that we are - somewhere deep down - furious or hurt

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2016
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Who Initiates Sex and Why It Matters So Much

The issue of who shows an interest in having a physical relationship in a couple might be mistaken for rather trivial; after all, what counts is that it happens, not that one or the other party initiates.

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2018
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Identifying the Tactics an Emotional Abuser Uses to Control You and the Relationship

This video addresses some of the very specific tactics used to control you and to control the dynamics in a toxic, emotionally abusive relationship. It examines Withholding and Countering.

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2016
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The Love Avoidance Cycle: The Pattern of Avoiding Intimacy and Emotional Unavailability.

Dr. Kate discusses how someone in a love addiction cycle generally pairs up with someone in a love avoidance cycle, because their needs are similar but opposite in terms of how they're expressed. Someone in a love avoidance cycle typically enters a relationship under a feeling of obligation or duty.

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2020
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The Withholding Personality; How to Cope

People withhold to punish and maintain control in a relationship. What can you do to cope with this behavior? This video will help you flip the script on the withholder in your life. Clarity has arrived.

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2018
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Avoidant and Anxious Relationship Struggles: How to Spot the Trap

Now, the point I really want to make today, is that you don’t need to have experienced significant trauma, or attachment disruptions in your past, to slip into experiencing anxiety or avoidance as a go to coping skill for stress in a romantic situation.

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2020
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Emotional Unavailability and Denying Touch

While we cannot change the past, we can change how we respond in the moment and in the future. This course offers you insights and tools as new ways to respond in your relationships. The Four Responses are Poking, Running, Hiding, and Submitting.

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2016
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The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

Whether you suspect you are being emotionally abused, fear that you might be emotionally abusing your partner, or think that both you and your partner are emotionally abusing each other, this book is for you.

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Beverly Engel
2003
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Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)