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The Avoident & The Empath. Ep.2. Chasing Closeness, Chasing Distance
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The hardest relationship pain is rarely a single blowup. It’s the slow confusion of reaching for someone you love and watching them step back, again and again. We’re Kim Lee, Child, an adolescent psychotherapist, and we’re continuing our series on what happens when an empath connects with an avoidant partner, especially after the early intensity wears off and the real attachment wounds begin to show.
We break down the “chasing closeness, chasing distance” cycle in plain language: why the empath experiences connection as safety, why the avoidant experiences intimacy as…
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