A coach who repeatedly chose partners who needed fixing realizes he was seeking validation through being needed. He identifies seven recurring relationship patterns he's seen across hundreds of clients, rooted in attachment theory and childhood wounds.
What I realized is it wasn't about her. It was all about me. I chose her because she was broken. Because being needed made me feel valuable. That was my loop, my womb, my pattern. And once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it. So I studied. I studied attachment theory, childhood wounds. I study relationship psychology. I coach hundreds of people. And I discover something. There are seven pattern loops. Not 100, not 50, just seven. And if you're listening right now, you're stuck in one of them, by the end of this episode, you'll know.
