Connor Beaton explains that people (men) project their unconscious content—their fears and insecurities—onto women they date. He links stronger attraction to increased projection and personal destabilization: becoming disheveled, losing boundaries, behaving like a passive "nice guy," and failing to advocate for oneself. The core claim: shadow projection into relationships undermines healthy behavior and the relationship itself.
How a man treats a woman is how he treats his unconscious. So how you treat the women that you date is how you treat the unconscious parts of yourself. You project all of that unconscious content onto the women that you are dating. So if you hold in your unconscious the fears that you don't like to talk about, the insecurities that you don't like to talk about, they get projected onto the women that you're with. There's this very interesting correlation between the more attracted that you are to a woman and the more disheveled and messed up you end up becoming. I want her. I want to be in relationship with her. All of your fears and insecurities start coming forward. You get all kinds of messed up. You start becoming this nice guy that has no boundaries. You don't speak up for yourself or advocate for yourself. You don't say no. And all of that just kind of falls apart. Why? Because the shadow and your unconscious gets projected onto that woman and into the relationship.
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