Michael ZellerNeurorewired LLC · Neurorewiring Expert

Overcoming Fearful Avoidant Attachment Patterns With Thais Gibson

15 May 2024 · 1 min

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A husband describes supporting his wife's fearful-avoidant attachment, rooted in narcissistic parents who never respected her boundaries. He shares what actually works: naming when she's about to shut down, validating her feelings instead of dismissing them, and recognizing her exhaustion before she withdraws.

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One of the things I've seen with my wife for the fearful avoidant is like recognizing that her needs are valid and boundaries issues. Like, she had so many boundaries issues, and of course, you know, narcissistic parents and all that jazz growing up. Now she's more comfortable with, instead of hitting the fall-off-the-cliff point, acknowledging, hey, I'm exhausted here, I'm heading towards this, I can't do this. And I'm better at recognizing when she's about to or Also acknowledging her feelings when she's at that point so that I don't just brush past the feelings.