Monday, March 24, 2014

The Mental Illness Happy Hour – “Rejection” with Dr. Guy Winch


So many people cannot respond once they know that you can see them.  They’re love avoidant.  And that is completely their-own issue.  They may be into you at first because they love the attention but then they realize, ‘Oh, now it’s the point where there is something required of me.  There’s intimacy.  I might be devoured by this person.’  And they want to pull away.  I see that so many times in people I correspond with and in experiences I had in my twenties when all of a sudden it was like a switch turning off and I couldn’t stand to be around a girl that wanted more.  And I wanted to run.  And it breaks my heart that I didn’t have the words to express to her then, ‘you don’t understand the reason I changed is because you’re present and you’re healthy and you’re whole and this is scaring the shit out of me.’

-Paul Gilmartin




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