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182. Why “I Don’t Need Anyone” Isn’t Healing ...With Guest Geoff Steurer MC, LMFT
Healthy Dependence After Betrayal: The Attachment Truth About “I Don’t Need Anyone”
If you’ve been betrayed, divorced, or coming out of a relationship where you lost yourself, it makes total sense if you swung hard into “I don’t need anyone.” For a while, that kind of hyper independence can feel like safety. Like a fortress. Like finally no one can regulate you, hurt you, or take you down again.
But here’s the part no one wants to say out loud. That extreme independence is not the same as secure attachment. And it can create a false sense of safety that actually keeps you stuck, disconnected…
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