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I'm going to turn it back over to you.

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Welcome tonight to our all path session.

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Those of you that have been around for a while,

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you know we have three different paths.

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The first path are those that are still working on themselves.

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Path two are the people that are single and mingling and want more

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practical help with dating and relationships.

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Path three are for the people that are in some sort of committed

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relationship with their partner.

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And they want to navigate that.

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And so path three is focused on that, but we're all paths together.

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And we actually invited our phase two ladies to come over and join us

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tonight as well.

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They're in their love story accelerator phase,

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the last year single program,

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because we think that this topic is so important.

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Okay. So we are doing a series, so to speak on attachment.

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Attachment theory is something that has become very popular over the

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last few years.

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And it's something that I think is really important to talk about.

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And I think everything has to come back to heart work for me,

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because honestly, I think that that is really what it's about.

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And you can slap whatever name you want on it, whether it's love languages,

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whether it's attachment styles, whether it's any a gram,

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whether it doesn't matter what it is.

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It's all going to come back to heart work. And what do I mean by that?

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This is what I mean.

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I mean that.

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We have all been separated from our identity.

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And so we have to have a relationship.

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And we have to have vibrant relationships,

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which is what we were created to do.

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It is what we've been created for.

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The primary reason that you're on this earth is for relationship.

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And in order to have those,

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We have to have them in the finished work of the cross.

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You have to have them on the other side of Calvary.

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Okay. Where the curse is broken.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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Nobody came out of the box.

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No matter how great your origin family is.

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Nobody came out of the box.

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Without having to learn without having issues that they have to D

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activate.

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Without having setbacks, without having.

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Blind spots without having lies that they're believing about themselves.

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Others, God, marriage.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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And that's what we're going to do.

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And it always comes back to heart work.

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And it always is probably going to come back to heart work.

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So we're going to dig into.

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Some more attachment stuff tonight from the lens of heart work.

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And what it looks like, no matter what.

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No matter how you've been attaching or how you've not been attaching up

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to this point.

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How can you in the future have vibrant relationships from this night

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forward?

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I want you to think about your relationships.

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And not just your romantic relationships,

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although that's why all of you are here.

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But also all of your relationships.

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Your relationship with your parents,

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your relationship with your children, your grandchildren.

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Your relationship with friends.

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With other members of your family, with colleagues.

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Your relationship with community.

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And people in community.

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And then your relationship with people in the community.

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Sorry. Not sorry.

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Want to be alone.

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Like, right.

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Want to be alone when you want to be alone,

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but then when you want companionship,

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you'll just come and rub up against someone's leg for two seconds.

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Just to get your little fix and then you're gone again.

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And some of you can relate to that.

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You either had a relationship like that.

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I mean,

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we're going to talk about how to change our attachment styles and how

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does that happen? And just in a nutshell, it's called hard work.

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Like Jackie, how many times are you going to say hard work tonight?

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Probably another thousand times.

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Because that's really what it is all about.

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For all you people that are hooked on psychology,

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you like all the psycho babble.

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So I'm going to give you a little bit of a handbook of that.

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Remember I went to college to be a psychologist.

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That is my educational background.

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And a lot of it.

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Excuses.

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Instead of doing hard work.

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And so I know that people don't have those tools,

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but they need to be given those tools.

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And that's why we're all here together tonight to do that. All right.

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So I'm going to give you a little bit of a hands-on.

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I'm going to give you a little bit of a hands-on.

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I'm going to give you a little bit of a hands-on.

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I'm going to give you a little bit of a hands-on.

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All right.

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So we are going to start with the avatar hand.

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Some of you have made it your own skin tone and that's great,

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but let's see all those hands.

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All hands should be up right now.

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If not go back to your Facebook group quickly and do your little quiz.

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It is pinned to the featured section of your Facebook group.

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No matter what group you're in.

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take you all of six minutes to complete it.

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So go do that.

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Go do it, go do it, go do it.

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Right, so there really are, in the science of attachment,

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there are four different attachment theories.

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You guys, this started out as psychology for children,

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right, this started out, attachment style is something

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that they were using to study children

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and how they are able to attach to their caregivers,

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right, or not attach to their caregivers.

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And there were several studies that were done,

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and that's where all this comes out of,

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this is what it all stems from.

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And so there really are four different attachment styles,

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but that quiz is only going to show you a result

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for three of those.

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And the reason why is because the fourth one

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is a hybrid of two of the others,

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and we'll discuss that tonight, okay?

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All right, okay, so I'm just gonna give you

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a brief synopsis of the three that your test

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could give you a result of very quickly.

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Secure attachment.

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Guys, secure attached people, first of all,

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I don't want you to get it twisted.

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They're not necessarily the friendliest people,

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they're not the nicest people.

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I know we think, oh, they're secure,

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that means they're just wonderful, amazing people,

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and they're warm and loving and great, it's not true.

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Okay, secure attachment looks different on everyone.

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It just means that they can give

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and receive love in relationship.

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It doesn't mean that they want to have relationship

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with everyone, it doesn't mean they're extroverted,

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it doesn't mean they're gregarious,

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it doesn't say anything about personality type,

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it just means that when they are in relationship,

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they can give and receive love,

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they feel comfortable expressing their feelings,

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and they also feel comfortable allowing someone else

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to express their feelings to them, right?

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They are vulnerable for the most part.

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I feel like everyone runs into glass ceiling

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with vulnerability, but they're vulnerable for the most part

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they're able to receive feedback,

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they're able to change course if necessary

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on their side of the street, so to speak,

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and that is basically a synopsis of attachment

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as far as secure.

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And then anxious, which is one of the other three results

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that you could have gotten, that approach to relationship

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comes from a place of fear of rejection or abandonment.

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comes from an origin of the fear

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of rejection or abandonment.

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in an anxious attachment style will,

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they don't know they're doing this necessarily,

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sometimes you know you're doing it,

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but they will use a lot of tools like manipulation,

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maybe even seduction to try to keep the interest

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of that other person.

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because you can have anxious attachment

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that affects all of your relationships,

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your friendships, you're the friend that people call needy,

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you need too much attention, you're really sensitive,

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you get offended easily,

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you always think everyone's leaving you out

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or talking about you, you're preoccupied

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with being abandoned.

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So you're also preoccupied with relationship,

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especially a romantic relationship.

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you usually are preoccupied with romantic relationship

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and you don't feel complete if you're not in one.

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A lot of times you may think things like,

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what's wrong with me?

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Why doesn't anyone like me?

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how other people feel about you, worst case scenario, right?

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And of course, you guys, this is on a spectrum.

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You could have got anxious as your result

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and you're like, you know, I might be like that mildly

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or every once in a while, but it's not that bad, Jackie.

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Well, right, because I'm giving you the full spectrum

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of what that looks like, right?

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So you have issues with acceptance

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or believing that you're accepted.

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therefore you're always looking for someone else

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to provide you with that self-esteem

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by giving you attention or giving you love, all right?

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and the avoidance always get the bad rap.

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It's like, oh, these are narcissists.

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You guys, come on.

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And I want to say one thing.

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that we describe as narcissists nowadays,

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and a lot of them might actually be avoided and attached.

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they seem like they don't care,

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like they're almost sociopathic.

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is also coming from the fear, a fear,

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but it's the fear of being controlled, okay?

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they're avoiding losing their independence

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or being controlled or being manipulated.

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like intimacy with the loss of intimacy.

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dependents, like those two things are tethered in their mind.

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when we'll get, we're going to, we're going to dig into what all this

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So those are the short little brief blurbs about what your result could have been.

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And then of course, the one that we didn't include on the quiz is

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the anxious avoidant hybrid.

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The anxious avoidant hybrid, because you could be a hybrid of all these

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attachment styles, depending on who the relationship is with.

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Especially for those of you that have some mommy or daddy ones, you know,

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you might, you might have some avoidant attachment with people that give off a

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mom or dad vibe, like authority figures, pastors, you might find with other

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people, but you might in those categories, people that, you know, this has happened

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to me a lot because I give off a very strong authoritative, like mother sort of

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I've had people come into my programs all, all throughout my teaching history

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of 27 years and just get a massive, like avoidance of me.

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Like I walk in the room, they walk out of the room.

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Now they'll come and they'll sit under my teaching and different things, but they

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don't want to get to know me or get close to me because they're there have avoidance

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with the whole mom vibe.

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So the anxious avoidance hybrid is you approach with anxiety, needing and wanting

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attention or assurance affirmation, but then when you get it, you don't want it

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anymore.

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Right.

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So when you get, when you get the relationship you want, you're not sure if

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you want it anymore.

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Then you begin to, when things get too intimate or too deep, then you start to

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pull away.

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And so you guys, unfortunately, a lot of anxious attachments and avoidant

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attachments gravitate towards each other because these would be polar opposite

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kind of gravitations, you know, opposites attract, but they don't cohabitate.

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And the anxious avoidant trap is something you definitely want to avoid.

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You want, you want to avoid the avoidant anxious hybrid of coming together.

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So if you got anxious on your quiz, you definitely don't want to get into

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relationship with an avoidance, because if you do, you're going to make each

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other worse.

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Okay.

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The more you try to get, get, get them, the more they're going to pull, pull,

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pull away.

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The more that you're going to try to get, get, get them.

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You understand what's going to happen here.

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It's just going to be, it's going to be a match made in hell.

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And I know because I was, I was married with that, that duo.

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My first marriage was that combination, anxious and avoided.

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It's bad too.

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And it's really bad because avoidance have a tendency to give you just enough to

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keep you coming, coming, coming if you're anxious.

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And so we call that breadcrumbing.

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And I know that people almost always associate that with narcissism because

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it's not true.

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It's not true.

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So people ask me one question before we get into your results.

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People ask me one question everywhere.

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I go every single event.

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I go to every time I speak somewhere, every time I meet singles in person or go

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to an event or just meet someone who's single just in general.

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And they know what I do.

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And they start asking me questions.

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I get one question over and over and over and over and over again.

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Does anyone want to guess what it is?

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Does anybody want to guess what it is?

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The question that I get that I've had at least a thousand times.

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It's a good guess because that's what we're talking about right now.

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How do you know if you're dating a narcissist?

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That's that's up on the list.

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And then Aaron Joyce says, do you have a husband for me?

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I get asked that a lot too.

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These are all great answers.

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You guys, there's the men never asked me if I have a wife for them, but the women

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always ask me, do you have a husband for me?

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Right.

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Um, okay.

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So the question is why are so many people still single?

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That is the question that I get asked more than any other question.

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Even some of these great, wonderful questions.

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That is the question.

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I can't see the chat right now.

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So some of you might've put the correct answer in there, but I can't see it.

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Cause I'm on my iPad.

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Why are so many Christian people?

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Still single.

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And my co-host, if you could help keep everyone muted, that would be great.

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All right.

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Why, why, why, why, why, why?

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And the answer to that is not narcissism, right?

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It's not attachment style.

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It's not, um, any aggram.

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or love languages, the answer to that is simply this.

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Write it down, circle it 50 times.

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The answer to that is the curse.

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The curse, you guys, that is the answer to that.

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Why are so many Christian people single?

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Simply the curse.

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God told Adam and Eve in the garden,

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because of what's happened here,

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the relationship between my creation and itself,

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the family that God wanted,

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because all God ever wanted was a family.

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Don't ever believe anything different.

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The only reason that you're on this earth right now

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is for relationship.

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There is no other reason to be here.

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There's no other reason that you're here.

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You're here because God wanted a family

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and he created a family for the purpose of relationship.

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That is why, okay?

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And so he told them, this is going to change that.

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You're not going to see yourself the same.

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You're not gonna see me the same.

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You're not gonna see each other the same.

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So the curse didn't just separate us from God,

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it separated us from ourselves, our own identity,

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as masculine and the feminine,

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as sons and daughters of God.

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It also separated us from each other.

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It put wedges in between us.

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It put distrust.

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It brought in, the curse brought in dis, D-I-S.

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And for those of you that have heard me do this teaching

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in my challenges, I'm gonna reiterate it tonight.

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It brought in D-I-S, dis.

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What are some words that start with dis?

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Disconnection, distrust, disappointment, disapproval,

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distance, distance between us, disdain, disinheritance,

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disallowed, disease, dis-ease, disillusion.

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Put some more.

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Do you have any more?

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Go ahead and put those in the comments.

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All right.

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All right, those are some good ones, dist.

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Someone just straight up said dist.

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Yeah, dis, dis, dis, dis, dis.

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Guys, let's not be talking about any attachment stuff.

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I'm gonna do the teaching tonight, you're not, all right?

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So focus on what I'm gonna say,

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and I don't want any junior psychologists

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in the comments tonight putting up anything

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about anything else, all right?

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We're gonna stay focused right here, right here.

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And then we're gonna go on breakout sessions,

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and you can show everybody what you know there, all right?

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Cool, all right, cool.

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Distraction, could you guys see me as a college professor?

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I could definitely see myself as a college professor.

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I'm like, look, we're gonna have fun,

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but you're also gonna listen to me.

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Okay, all right, because God wants to talk to us tonight,

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because this is life-changing if you want it to be.

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This is a whole nother layer of heart work,

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and we talk about this, we touch on this

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during the first phase of this program.

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And for those that really focus

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on the first phase of their program,

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they really get breakthrough in these areas.

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They're able to come into places where,

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I'm not saying that you're gonna switch

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from your attachment style to secure attachment,

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but what does happen is you are able to recognize

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and be self-aware of where you need

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to change your reactions to things, right?

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That's what happens.

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Okay, so we're gonna go ahead

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and put up our results from our quiz.

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Everyone put your results up.

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What did you get in the quiz in the chat?

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All right, lots of avoidance, lots of anxiety,

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but you know what?

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Whether I didn't skive enough for one hour or I skipped more,

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it doesn't , either of those factors matter

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and that's what we'd like to focus on today.

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There's a couple secures thrown in there for good measure.

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Try the order with us for that.

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And, and there you go,

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transcension they're talking about.

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Okay, for those of you that didn't do the quiz it's right there just pinned in the beginning of the featured section of your group so go ahead and get it do it.

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It'll take you just a few minutes do it while we're on here.

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Alright, so you guys if we were going to divide attachment style by gender lines of what we really think and what we think society thinks based on the movies and the music and all the different things we watch most people would have a tendency to believe that masculine equals avoidance.

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That men have avoidant attachment style. Most men, right, and that's not true.

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But we think of that right we think of aloof we think of the James Dean type of guy doesn't want to commit doesn't want to settle down wants to pollinate all the flowers, not just one.

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It's true, because modern media and society, show us that, and then a lot of us have personal experiences. It's not just the caregivers in our lives but a lot of you may have run into men that seem dismissive.

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I know during my challenges women would always say they think men only want one thing, and I know that they want to, they want sex and food, not just sex but food as well.

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Right, but a lot of women believe this kind of stuff they believe that men, they don't want to make a heart connection they only want to make a physical connection and guys if you're here, I'm not saying that's true I'm saying this is what we believe is true.

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And that would be an avoidant attachment right, but it's not true. That's not the definition of avoidant attachment you know that true avoidant attachment actually shies away from physical intimacy.

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They don't want to get entangled.

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So a true avoidant attachment isn't someone who as my kids say in high school hump you and dump you.

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That's not, that's not what that is a true avoidant attachment doesn't want to get emotionally or physically attached.

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So, I actually know a guy who has classic avoidant attachment, and he actually is in his 40s and has never kissed a woman he's very handsome he's very successful.

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He's had relationships and he those relationships have never gotten physical. In fact, for years people even thought secretly that he might be gay.

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Whispered about him in the background, but that's not the truth. The truth is is that he is very, very much avoidantly attached.

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That is very high on the spectrum. And I feel like a lot of us, regardless of what you got as the answer to that quiz.

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You're somewhere on the spectrum of that thing. And it's going to look different on everybody.

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But if we were going to divide it by gender lines, we're going to be honest with ourselves we think okay men have avoidant attachment and then what?

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We think that the opposite is true of women. Women are the anxious attachers, right? Pick me, pick me, pick me, I need a man, I want a man, pick me.

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Right, the pick me girls, you guys, that's actually a thing. If you're not aware of that, once again, my kids that are in their 20s or millennials.

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They have gotten me, you know, all of the information of what's going on out there. And they're like, man, don't be a pick me girl.

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And I'm like, what's that mean? And then they told me the girl that's always like, hey, I'll do whatever you want. I'll be whatever you want.

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You want this? I'll be that. I'll do anything for you. Those are the pick me girls, right?

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So if we're being honest, we believe that that's true. That men are avoidant and women are anxious, but that is not true.

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Those are stereotypes that are not true at all. There's many men that are very far from being avoided.

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They communicate freely. They are loving. They're affectionate. My husband is one of those men. They don't retreat during conflict.

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They're consistently there for their partner. Some of you might believe that men are avoided because you had an emotionally unavailable father.

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The men in your life have just been, they've been there physically maybe, but emotionally completely unavailable, right? Or inconsistent.

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So consistency is something that we really put to secure attachment, consistency, reliability, those types of things.

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And then of course, women in their anxious attachment styles, we think that women are like that.

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Because they're always pining away over a man that's left them or trying to get his attention any, by any means possible.

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Manipulation, deception, seduction, the whole revenge body thing in culture.

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If you guys don't know what that is, that's like when your boyfriend breaks up with you, you get a hot body.

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You get revenge by going out and showing him what he's missing. That's fully a, a, a media thing.

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a thing that's focused on feminine.

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You don't really hear about men getting a revenge body.

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It's women that they think do that, right?

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And so do you see how we've been brainwashed

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to think this kind of stuff?

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We've been brainwashed to think it.

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Now, do the numbers show that there are more men

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that are avoidant than women?

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Yes.

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And do the numbers show that there are more women

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that are anxious than men?

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Yes.

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But we can't divide it by gender lines

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because there are men and women that are secure attachment

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and there are men that are anxious.

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There are women that are avoidant.

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I actually am a recovering avoidant attachment,

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believe it or not.

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And some people would say I haven't recovered a lot.

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But, and the people that would say that

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are not the people that are in deep intimacy with me,

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like my husband and my children.

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They're more people like friends, like community.

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I can definitely be a very aloof friend,

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someone who doesn't call you a lot or doesn't talk to you

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or doesn't seem to need a lot of friendship

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because I have some wounds in that area, right?

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And so that's what important for us to understand

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is that the area of your attachment issues

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that you're gonna start to deal with

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and have heart work around usually come from something.

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They usually come from a trauma.

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Remember, because trauma doesn't just hurt us, it what?

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Trauma doesn't just hurt us, it?

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Changes our identity.

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Helps us.

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Trauma identity.

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Heals us.

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Creates different versions of ourselves.

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Yes, creates a different version of us.

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Yes, thank you, thank you.

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Trauma doesn't just hurt us,

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it creates different versions of us.

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That is what I was going for.

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All of you said things that are correct,

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but that is what I was going for.

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So the different versions of us

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are these attachment styles that are causing us harm,

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that are hurting us,

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that are sabotaging what God wanted for us

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when he thought of us and created us.

497
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And that is he wants us to be secure and happy

498
00:27:13.520 --> 00:27:15.440
and healthy in relationship.

499
00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:16.520
Do you believe that?

500
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.280
Do you believe that?

501
00:27:19.280 --> 00:27:22.000
And that's not just with healthy people.

502
00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:25.480
All of you that test that as secure attachments, guess what?

503
00:27:25.480 --> 00:27:27.400
The chances of you getting into a marriage

504
00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:30.040
with another secure, they're slim to none.

505
00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:32.800
You're definitely gonna pick an avoidant or an anxious.

506
00:27:33.760 --> 00:27:35.320
Because they're not bad people.

507
00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.600
They're not bad people.

508
00:27:37.600 --> 00:27:39.600
Which when it comes to relationship,

509
00:27:39.600 --> 00:27:41.840
they're just gonna have to be more self-aware.

510
00:27:41.840 --> 00:27:46.040
They're gonna have to see when they're doing what they do

511
00:27:46.040 --> 00:27:48.440
to sabotage the relationship.

512
00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:49.720
They're gonna have to be self-aware.

513
00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:51.640
They're gonna have to do their hard work.

514
00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:53.000
Cool?

515
00:27:54.040 --> 00:27:54.880
Right.

516
00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:55.880
Okay, good.

517
00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:59.680
Okay, so attachment style forms in childhood for sure it does

518
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:01.480
with our primary caregivers,

519
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:04.720
but it can change over time.

520
00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:06.440
And it can actually change from something good

521
00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:08.400
to something not good.

522
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.880
Not just from something not good to something good.

523
00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:12.440
It can go the opposite direction too.

524
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:14.560
Maybe you had a really secure upbringing,

525
00:28:14.560 --> 00:28:17.120
felt really loved and safe in your family.

526
00:28:17.120 --> 00:28:18.440
Then you got out in the real world

527
00:28:18.440 --> 00:28:20.200
and you pick some not so good people

528
00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:21.520
to be in relationship with

529
00:28:21.520 --> 00:28:23.640
and you got broken and you got distrustful.

530
00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:25.000
Did that happen to anybody?

531
00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:28.280
And then you're like,

532
00:28:28.280 --> 00:28:29.920
ooh, I don't know if I ever wanna even be

533
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.480
in relationship again because people are scary.

534
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:34.480
People are scary.

535
00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.080
Okay, yes.

536
00:28:40.080 --> 00:28:41.200
All right.

537
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.320
So the curse affects everyone differently, you guys,

538
00:28:43.320 --> 00:28:44.840
but that is the answer to the question.

539
00:28:44.840 --> 00:28:46.680
That is why so many people are single,

540
00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:48.840
because of the curse and because of that dis.

541
00:28:48.840 --> 00:28:49.680
But guess what?

542
00:28:49.680 --> 00:28:50.520
Jesus came.

543
00:28:50.520 --> 00:28:53.880
He already came a long time ago to reconnect us,

544
00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:56.240
to give us the ministry of re.

545
00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.440
So curse brought dis, the cross brought re, R-E,

546
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:01.720
and that is what?

547
00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:06.720
It's reconciliation, it's relationship, it's revival,

548
00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:11.640
it's reconnection, it's recalibration.

549
00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:12.960
I wrote down a whole bunch of re words.

550
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:15.240
Go ahead and put in the chat your re words.

551
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:20.240
R-E, redemption, so good.

552
00:29:20.320 --> 00:29:21.920
Yes.

553
00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.640
Renewal, love it.

554
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:26.480
Rehabilitate, recreation, reunite, yes.

555
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.120
Reunion is an important word.

556
00:29:29.120 --> 00:29:31.840
Restoration, for sure, for sure.

557
00:29:31.840 --> 00:29:34.160
Reclaimed, love it.

558
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:36.280
Recompense, renew, redo.

559
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:38.720
Get a redo, who wants a redo?

560
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:40.240
Yes, yes, yes, yes.

561
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:41.200
All the things.

562
00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:44.200
All the things.

563
00:29:45.200 --> 00:29:48.000
Restitution, yes, that's a real good word.

564
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:49.120
We actually have that word.

565
00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:53.200
We released that word over the community two years ago,

566
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:55.720
and a lot of people saw that restitution

567
00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:57.040
happening in their lives.

568
00:29:58.840 --> 00:30:02.480
Restitution, yes, that's a real good word.

569
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.000
Reconcile. Yes. All right.

570
00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:07.480
Restitution, yes, that's a real good word.

571
00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.000
All right.

572
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:16.000
Now, this is where I said that I was going to ruffle some feathers because there's a lot of information out there that's flying under the radar.

573
00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:32.000
Okay, it's coming under the banner of psychology and science of psychology and different things. And a lot of Christians have begun to have begun to adopt it and and believe it as if it's true and truth.

574
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:44.000
And one of those things is what I call the codependency movement, or the anti codependency movement, where it's like, Oh my god, make sure you're not codependent.

575
00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.000
Right.

576
00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:53.000
And I'm here to tell you that it's not true.

577
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:57.000
You're absolutely going to be codependent.

578
00:30:57.000 --> 00:31:11.000
Now codependency because, like I said, I used to be in the industry of social work and psychology, and we make up words in that industry to describe things that we need to describe clinically.

579
00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.000
Please listen to this. All right.

580
00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:27.000
So for instance step families, the word step stepmother stepfather, that has come to mean a lot of negative things right because a lot of times blended rhymes with offended, and when you get into a family where their steps.

581
00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:37.000
Then, those people don't treat you as well possibly maybe you have a totally different experience, but there's a reason why they call the wicked stepmother.

582
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:39.000
That came from something.

583
00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:50.000
Okay, so I'm going to tell you clinically speaking the reason why the word step family came into existence is because as clinicians when we're dealing with families and therapy.

584
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:57.000
We had to come up with a term to describe a non biological family.

585
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:10.000
We had to come up with the word step family stepmother stepfather step sibling. Do you know what it stands for. It stands for one step removed from biological family.

586
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.000
That's what it means.

587
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:19.000
But in society, it means something completely different right it's like synonymous with disconnection isn't it.

588
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:25.000
Which is why my blended family we don't use the word step. I'm nobody's stepmother. I'm your mother I'm nothing.

589
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:34.000
Right. No one's half sibling no one's a step sibling we don't use those words to describe anything here because what we do here is we love.

590
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:41.000
We don't use terms of disconnection, we use terms of reunion and connection.

591
00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:46.000
Okay, so codependency is one of those words.

592
00:32:46.000 --> 00:33:01.000
So codependency in the dictionary doesn't mean what society has termed it to mean. And the reason why it came to be, is it had to do with families where there was active addiction.

593
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:08.000
Right so it's the relationship within a family where there is, you know, abuse and addiction.

594
00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:13.000
And so it's a synonym for co-dependency.

595
00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:20.000
And so that's where the word codependency came from and yeah that's not that's negative that's bad it's true.

596
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.000
But you guys, do you know what a synonym.

597
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:32.000
For those of you that don't know what a synonym is it's just another way to say the same word, it's words that mean similar things.

598
00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:37.000
A synonym of codependency is interdependency.

599
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:43.000
Okay.

600
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.000
Connected.

601
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:52.000
Attached. Attached, you guys, is the synonym of codependency.

602
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:56.000
Right, so interconnected is a synonym.

603
00:33:56.000 --> 00:34:11.000
You guys understand that we've been created to coexist, we've been created to collaborate, to have community, to have cohesion, to be connected, to have cohorts, you know the word co on and on and on and on it just means two it just means coming together.

604
00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:14.000
Right, partnering.

605
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:24.000
If you're going to get married, you are going to be, if you look down the list of things that describe codependency you're going to be codependent.

606
00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:31.000
You're going to be codependent. You guys, can I share with you a scientific really quick I want to share this. There's a scientific study.

607
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:40.000
I think this is going to just rock, rock your world. All right.

608
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:48.000
So, I was reading about this today guys this is not from Christianity, it's not from the Christian journal.

609
00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:59.000
It's not doesn't have anything to do with Christian anything this is from a scientific study, science, which oftentimes people think is the opposite of Christianity but it's not.

610
00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:00.000
Right.

611
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.120
It's a proof of science that it's true.

612
00:35:02.120 --> 00:35:03.720
That is what happens there.

613
00:35:03.720 --> 00:35:06.720
Okay, and science is the proof of Christianity is true.

614
00:35:06.720 --> 00:35:07.920
There's a codependency there

615
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:09.800
between science and Christianity.

616
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:11.780
All right, so let me tell you this.

617
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.120
There are numerous studies that show

618
00:35:15.120 --> 00:35:17.880
that once you become attached to someone,

619
00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:21.840
all right, we're talking about in a marriage relationship.

620
00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.520
You know, in the Bible in Genesis where the two became one

621
00:35:24.520 --> 00:35:27.560
and none of us can really ever understand what that means.

622
00:35:27.600 --> 00:35:30.200
It means this, it means codependent,

623
00:35:30.200 --> 00:35:34.240
it means interdependent, it means attached.

624
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.280
That is what it means in the Bible

625
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:39.120
when it says the two will become as one.

626
00:35:39.120 --> 00:35:41.600
So it says here, and remember that I'm not reading

627
00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:43.160
from anything Christian right now,

628
00:35:43.160 --> 00:35:46.480
and I wrote down word for word what this study said.

629
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:49.280
It says, once we become attached to someone,

630
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:53.300
the two form one physiological unit.

631
00:35:54.220 --> 00:35:59.220
Physiological unit, you guys, it goes even further.

632
00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:03.460
Your partner regulates your blood pressure,

633
00:36:03.460 --> 00:36:05.020
your heart rate, your breathing,

634
00:36:05.020 --> 00:36:07.320
and the levels of hormones in your blood.

635
00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:11.520
Is this not blowing your mind right now?

636
00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:13.880
This isn't a scientific journal, y'all.

637
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.860
They don't even know that they're proving Genesis 2,

638
00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:19.120
22 through 26.

639
00:36:19.120 --> 00:36:24.120
You are no longer separate entities.

640
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:30.520
The emphasis, and then it says this,

641
00:36:30.520 --> 00:36:33.600
the emphasis on differentiation that is held

642
00:36:33.600 --> 00:36:37.240
by most of today's popular psychology approaches

643
00:36:37.240 --> 00:36:41.080
to adult relationship does not hold water

644
00:36:41.080 --> 00:36:43.720
from a biological perspective.

645
00:36:43.720 --> 00:36:48.720
Interdependency is a fact, it's not a choice or a preference.

646
00:36:49.680 --> 00:36:53.440
It's saying if you partner with someone,

647
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:56.280
codependency and interdependency is not a choice

648
00:36:56.280 --> 00:36:58.160
or a preference that you make.

649
00:36:58.160 --> 00:37:00.280
If you truly attach to someone,

650
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:02.560
they're gonna regulate your blood pressure.

651
00:37:02.560 --> 00:37:04.200
They're going to regulate your heart rate

652
00:37:04.200 --> 00:37:05.280
and your breathing.

653
00:37:06.160 --> 00:37:09.360
Your hormones and your bloodstream are gonna be regulated

654
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.080
by this partnership and this attachment.

655
00:37:14.240 --> 00:37:15.840
Now, some of you were married before,

656
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:17.720
but you weren't attached.

657
00:37:17.720 --> 00:37:19.360
You weren't attached to that person.

658
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:21.360
Guys, this doesn't say cohabitation.

659
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:25.040
It doesn't say just because you share a car note

660
00:37:25.040 --> 00:37:27.920
or the utilities that you're paying together.

661
00:37:30.160 --> 00:37:32.920
Not even sharing a bed, not even having sex,

662
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:35.800
not even sharing offspring is talking about attachment.

663
00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:43.040
Into me see, talking about attachment.

664
00:37:48.200 --> 00:37:51.440
Okay, so here's one of the studies that they did

665
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.440
that proved this, okay?

666
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:56.560
Normally under stressful conditions,

667
00:37:56.560 --> 00:38:00.040
the hypothalamus will become activated.

668
00:38:00.040 --> 00:38:01.680
So they did this experiment.

669
00:38:01.680 --> 00:38:05.120
They left a woman alone and they told her

670
00:38:05.120 --> 00:38:08.320
that she was going to experience where she was standing

671
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:10.080
a mild electric shock.

672
00:38:11.080 --> 00:38:12.040
She's just standing alone,

673
00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:14.640
knowing that at some point during this experiment,

674
00:38:14.640 --> 00:38:16.640
she's gonna feel a mild electric shock.

675
00:38:18.680 --> 00:38:20.520
So as she's waiting alone,

676
00:38:22.240 --> 00:38:26.880
they have little electrodes on her to measure her stuff.

677
00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:30.280
And her hypothalamus gets activated.

678
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:31.880
Fear gets activated, right?

679
00:38:33.640 --> 00:38:35.080
Apprehension gets activated.

680
00:38:35.080 --> 00:38:37.920
The hypothalamus starts to light up on the screen

681
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:39.880
as she's standing there alone, waiting.

682
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.880
But then they had those women wait with a stranger,

683
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.200
a male companion that they don't know,

684
00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:49.080
they're just meeting for this experiment

685
00:38:49.080 --> 00:38:50.840
and had him hold her hand,

686
00:38:52.160 --> 00:38:55.120
waiting for the shock to come.

687
00:38:55.120 --> 00:38:57.400
Because you're like, guys, you don't know when it's coming.

688
00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:58.680
And it's a mild electric shock,

689
00:38:58.680 --> 00:39:00.560
but still you guys know the apprehension you would feel

690
00:39:00.560 --> 00:39:01.920
if you're standing somewhere and you're like,

691
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:03.480
okay, I'm gonna get shocked.

692
00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:05.040
The shock is coming, I don't know when,

693
00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:06.080
but it's coming, right?

694
00:39:06.080 --> 00:39:08.880
Okay, so they had those women wait

695
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:10.320
for the shock to come, right?

696
00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:11.960
Okay, yes.

697
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:15.000
Okay, and it says that the results of that

698
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:17.680
were that the hypothalamus chilled out a little bit,

699
00:39:17.680 --> 00:39:19.040
not a lot, but a little bit,

700
00:39:19.040 --> 00:39:22.800
just having this stranger standing there with you, right?

701
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:24.360
So there was a little less,

702
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:27.320
there was reduced activity in the hypothalamus during that.

703
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:30.120
But then they had, these were all married women,

704
00:39:30.120 --> 00:39:34.040
but then they had them hold the hand of their husbands

705
00:39:34.040 --> 00:39:35.800
during this experiment.

706
00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:36.960
And guess what happened?

707
00:39:37.600 --> 00:39:40.440
The stress of the hypothalamus was barely detectable.

708
00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:44.360
It was barely detectable.

709
00:39:44.360 --> 00:39:46.480
And the people that most benefited

710
00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:49.120
from the spousal handholding or support

711
00:39:49.120 --> 00:39:51.440
were the people that also reported

712
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:53.480
the highest marital satisfaction.

713
00:39:54.960 --> 00:39:58.280
So the people that were happily married or attached

714
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:00.120
didn't feel the stress or the fear.

715
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.660
of what was coming.

716
00:40:02.620 --> 00:40:07.620
Y'all, come on, gentlemen, ladies.

717
00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:12.220
Science is proving what the book of Genesis

718
00:40:12.220 --> 00:40:15.160
already told us about how we've been created.

719
00:40:17.420 --> 00:40:19.580
Guys, we're better together.

720
00:40:19.580 --> 00:40:20.940
We need each other.

721
00:40:20.940 --> 00:40:22.740
I put on my Instagram today,

722
00:40:22.740 --> 00:40:25.520
the very first thing that you can do, ladies,

723
00:40:25.520 --> 00:40:27.480
to attract a marriage-minded man

724
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.380
is to admit to yourself and to God

725
00:40:29.420 --> 00:40:33.500
that you don't just want a man, but you need one.

726
00:40:33.500 --> 00:40:34.340
You need one.

727
00:40:34.340 --> 00:40:37.100
And not in an anxious attachment type of way.

728
00:40:37.100 --> 00:40:41.700
But you need one because you've been created for this.

729
00:40:41.700 --> 00:40:42.540
Right?

730
00:40:42.540 --> 00:40:43.720
Okay. All right.

731
00:40:43.720 --> 00:40:46.580
So secure attachment, you guys,

732
00:40:46.580 --> 00:40:47.900
they're great conflict busters.

733
00:40:47.900 --> 00:40:49.220
Remember, they're not perfect people.

734
00:40:49.220 --> 00:40:50.380
You might not even like them.

735
00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:53.160
They might not even have great personalities.

736
00:40:53.160 --> 00:40:55.120
The thing that makes them securely attached

737
00:40:55.120 --> 00:40:58.540
is they don't take other people's stuff personally.

738
00:40:58.540 --> 00:40:59.860
They don't retaliate.

739
00:40:59.860 --> 00:41:03.580
They don't act defensively when their partner gets upset.

740
00:41:03.580 --> 00:41:05.260
They're mentally flexible.

741
00:41:05.260 --> 00:41:07.620
They're not threatened by criticism.

742
00:41:07.620 --> 00:41:10.060
They're willing to reconsider their ways of doing things

743
00:41:10.060 --> 00:41:11.600
if necessary change.

744
00:41:11.600 --> 00:41:13.700
They're willing to do all that stuff.

745
00:41:13.700 --> 00:41:15.600
That is what makes a secure attachment.

746
00:41:15.600 --> 00:41:17.500
So let's run through the common thoughts,

747
00:41:17.500 --> 00:41:20.220
emotions, and reactions of the avoidance

748
00:41:20.220 --> 00:41:23.260
and the anxious real quick.

749
00:41:23.260 --> 00:41:24.340
Okay?

750
00:41:24.340 --> 00:41:25.780
And go ahead and check off in your mind

751
00:41:25.780 --> 00:41:27.340
how many of these fit you

752
00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:29.780
or some version of these fit you.

753
00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:31.620
Okay. So these are common thoughts, emotions,

754
00:41:31.620 --> 00:41:34.940
and reactions of the avoidant attachment style.

755
00:41:34.940 --> 00:41:35.780
All right.

756
00:41:35.780 --> 00:41:37.700
All or nothing thinking.

757
00:41:37.700 --> 00:41:39.100
I knew they weren't right for me.

758
00:41:39.100 --> 00:41:40.180
This proves it.

759
00:41:40.180 --> 00:41:43.600
By the way, remember how we did on the very first,

760
00:41:43.600 --> 00:41:46.220
the first session in this series

761
00:41:46.220 --> 00:41:48.540
about how a lot of people don't know

762
00:41:48.540 --> 00:41:50.580
if this is the right person.

763
00:41:50.580 --> 00:41:53.180
They don't know if this is who God is choosing for them

764
00:41:53.180 --> 00:41:54.300
kind of thing.

765
00:41:54.300 --> 00:41:57.220
And they start talking themselves out of relationship.

766
00:41:58.060 --> 00:41:59.740
They start micro-focusing on the other person's flaws

767
00:41:59.740 --> 00:42:01.220
and talking themselves out of things.

768
00:42:01.220 --> 00:42:03.220
And, you know, think that there's something better out there

769
00:42:03.220 --> 00:42:06.100
or maybe God is like trying to tell them something.

770
00:42:06.100 --> 00:42:07.580
The people that are most likely

771
00:42:07.580 --> 00:42:09.500
to have those types of thoughts and feelings,

772
00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:13.920
especially the God is saying no thing are avoidance.

773
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:17.180
They're avoidant attachment personalities.

774
00:42:17.180 --> 00:42:18.960
Okay. So all or nothing.

775
00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:20.180
I knew they weren't right for me.

776
00:42:20.180 --> 00:42:21.020
And this proves it.

777
00:42:21.020 --> 00:42:24.400
Like it has to all be good or it's all bad.

778
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:26.380
The second that anything goes wrong,

779
00:42:26.380 --> 00:42:29.140
they start to think everything's wrong.

780
00:42:29.140 --> 00:42:31.180
They over-generalize.

781
00:42:31.180 --> 00:42:33.700
I knew I wasn't made to be in a close relationship.

782
00:42:33.700 --> 00:42:35.780
They over-generalize everything.

783
00:42:35.780 --> 00:42:37.460
They might think about someone that they're dating.

784
00:42:37.460 --> 00:42:38.900
I think they're taking over my life.

785
00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:39.820
I can't take it.

786
00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:41.020
I feel suffocated.

787
00:42:42.020 --> 00:42:43.740
I don't want to do everything their way.

788
00:42:43.740 --> 00:42:45.480
This price is too high to pay.

789
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:46.780
I need to get out of here.

790
00:42:48.540 --> 00:42:49.940
I need to get out of here.

791
00:42:49.940 --> 00:42:51.580
Right?

792
00:42:51.580 --> 00:42:55.220
If they were the one, I wouldn't feel this way.

793
00:42:55.220 --> 00:42:56.580
This wouldn't happen.

794
00:42:56.580 --> 00:42:58.660
I would feel differently.

795
00:42:58.660 --> 00:43:00.380
When I was with some,

796
00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:02.700
a lot of times people that have avoided,

797
00:43:02.700 --> 00:43:04.540
and I used to do this really badly, you guys,

798
00:43:04.540 --> 00:43:07.700
not in this marriage, but in previous relationships,

799
00:43:07.700 --> 00:43:11.260
they have some one that got away,

800
00:43:11.260 --> 00:43:12.460
some person that got away,

801
00:43:12.460 --> 00:43:16.540
some phantom ex of theirs that they will focus on

802
00:43:16.540 --> 00:43:18.380
and romanticize in their mind.

803
00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:20.700
When I was with them, I never felt this way.

804
00:43:20.700 --> 00:43:21.540
I miss them.

805
00:43:21.540 --> 00:43:22.800
I wish I was still with them.

806
00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:26.840
Even though if you had a chance to be with them,

807
00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:27.680
you wouldn't.

808
00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:28.520
You wouldn't be with them

809
00:43:28.520 --> 00:43:30.680
because that's the reason you broke up with them

810
00:43:30.680 --> 00:43:32.000
in the first place.

811
00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:35.160
Because you avoidantly attached to them,

812
00:43:35.160 --> 00:43:38.360
and then you got rid of them or you scared them away.

813
00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:40.400
But now you're romanticizing it.

814
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:41.400
They were perfect.

815
00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:42.720
They were amazing.

816
00:43:42.720 --> 00:43:43.640
That happens.

817
00:43:43.640 --> 00:43:45.000
Malicious intent.

818
00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:47.680
You put this on someone that you're dating,

819
00:43:47.680 --> 00:43:49.220
someone that you're trying to get to know,

820
00:43:49.220 --> 00:43:51.160
that you're in relationship with already,

821
00:43:51.200 --> 00:43:54.200
that maybe you're headed towards marriage with.

822
00:43:54.200 --> 00:43:55.040
Malicious intent.

823
00:43:55.040 --> 00:43:57.600
Something goes wrong, you think they did it on purpose.

824
00:43:57.600 --> 00:43:58.680
They're out to get you.

825
00:43:58.680 --> 00:44:00.720
They're out to annoy you.

826
00:44:00.720 --> 00:44:02.320
They're out to make you unhappy.

827
00:44:02.320 --> 00:44:05.440
They just wanna take you down.

828
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:06.960
This isn't true love.

829
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:09.040
Then you'll fantasize about being with someone else,

830
00:44:09.040 --> 00:44:10.360
maybe not even a phantom ex,

831
00:44:10.360 --> 00:44:13.720
but just someone else that's more compatible to you.

832
00:44:13.720 --> 00:44:15.560
There's someone else out there

833
00:44:15.560 --> 00:44:18.320
that is better for you than this person.

834
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:21.240
And this person's keeping you from finding them.

835
00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:24.560
Or this person expresses needs and it's like,

836
00:44:24.560 --> 00:44:25.720
oh, they're so needy.

837
00:44:25.720 --> 00:44:26.560
That's gross.

838
00:44:26.560 --> 00:44:28.060
That's pathetic.

839
00:44:28.060 --> 00:44:30.800
You can't handle the neediness of somebody else.

840
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:32.840
And you feel like you move better off on your own.

841
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:35.720
Some of the emotions that avoidance show are withdrawal.

842
00:44:35.720 --> 00:44:36.560
They withdraw.

843
00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:37.380
They're frustrated.

844
00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:38.220
They're angry.

845
00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:39.060
They feel pressured.

846
00:44:39.060 --> 00:44:39.880
They feel trapped.

847
00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:40.720
They feel unappreciated.

848
00:44:40.720 --> 00:44:43.720
They feel misunderstood, resentful, aloof, empty, numb,

849
00:44:43.720 --> 00:44:47.020
deceived, tense, judgmental, suspicious, apathetic,

850
00:44:47.020 --> 00:44:49.700
disconnected, restless, distrustful.

851
00:44:49.700 --> 00:44:51.100
And then they might act out.

852
00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:56.340
They might make critical remarks about the other person,

853
00:44:56.340 --> 00:44:58.660
about what they don't like about that person

854
00:44:58.660 --> 00:44:59.960
or what they don't want.

855
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.120
They'll withdraw mentally or withdraw physically.

856
00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:07.840
They don't have to withdraw emotionally because they keep emotional sharing to a minimum

857
00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:11.680
and they minimize physical contact most of the time.

858
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:13.360
They'll stop listening.

859
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:14.080
They'll ignore.

860
00:45:14.080 --> 00:45:14.880
They'll stonewall.

861
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:19.280
Do you guys know that one of the main criteria of avoidant attachment

862
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:24.560
is you don't listen when someone else is talking to you, like in relationship.

863
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:26.960
You just kind of zone out.

864
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:28.080
You're not listening.

865
00:45:28.080 --> 00:45:28.960
And you know why?

866
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.120
It's not because you're disinterested.

867
00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:34.000
It's not because you're a narcissist.

868
00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:38.160
It's not because you're so self-absorbed that you can't listen to someone else talk.

869
00:45:38.160 --> 00:45:41.200
It's because communication is a lifeblood of relationship.

870
00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:46.080
And as an avoidant attached person, if you listen to that other person

871
00:45:46.080 --> 00:45:49.120
and you really listen to what they're saying and what they care about

872
00:45:49.120 --> 00:45:52.400
and how they're feeling about things and different things, you'll start attaching.

873
00:45:52.720 --> 00:45:57.520
So you zone out when they're talking to you so that you never,

874
00:45:57.520 --> 00:46:01.680
you're depersonalizing the relationship.

875
00:46:02.240 --> 00:46:03.760
You're not making it personal.

876
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:04.960
Do you see how that works?

877
00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:09.440
See how that works?

878
00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:10.000
Okay.

879
00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:11.760
So let's just do anxious really quick.

880
00:46:16.560 --> 00:46:19.920
Common thoughts, emotions, and reactions of the anxious attachment style.

881
00:46:20.720 --> 00:46:24.880
So mind reading, always trying to read your partner's mind.

882
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:27.280
Oh, I know.

883
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:28.080
Or their body language.

884
00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:28.800
Oh, I know.

885
00:46:28.800 --> 00:46:29.520
They're leaving me.

886
00:46:29.520 --> 00:46:30.880
They don't like me anymore.

887
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:33.600
You know, and then thinking thoughts like I'll never find anybody else.

888
00:46:34.640 --> 00:46:36.880
Once again, all or nothing thinking.

889
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:38.000
I ruined everything.

890
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:43.200
There's nothing I can do to mend the situation or getting very, very upset.

891
00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:47.680
And a lot of you have been in friendships with women or men like this,

892
00:46:48.080 --> 00:46:51.280
where they get really upset at the person that they're dating.

893
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.440
And they'll say things like, they can't treat me this way.

894
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:54.320
I'll show them.

895
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:56.640
They're getting like all mad and up in their feelings.

896
00:46:56.640 --> 00:46:59.600
And then, of course, immediately the pendulum swings to,

897
00:46:59.600 --> 00:47:00.320
I don't know what they're doing.

898
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:01.680
I'm going to drive by their house.

899
00:47:01.680 --> 00:47:03.920
I'm going to text or call them 50 times because, you know,

900
00:47:03.920 --> 00:47:05.840
maybe they really don't love me anymore.

901
00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:08.720
After they get all mad and say that they never want to talk to them again.

902
00:47:09.680 --> 00:47:11.040
I knew something would go wrong.

903
00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:12.720
Nothing ever works out right for me.

904
00:47:12.720 --> 00:47:14.160
That whole victim mentality.

905
00:47:15.040 --> 00:47:19.680
And then juxtaposition to they better come crawling back and beg my forgiveness.

906
00:47:19.680 --> 00:47:22.880
Otherwise they forget about me forever kind of idea, right?

907
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:26.960
And then for women, I think we do this a lot more than men do.

908
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:28.640
When we have anxious attachment.

909
00:47:28.640 --> 00:47:29.920
I'm going to go ahead and own that.

910
00:47:30.560 --> 00:47:34.720
Maybe if I look drop dead gorgeous and I show up to where they go all the time,

911
00:47:35.600 --> 00:47:40.480
they'll feel like they missed out on something and they'll come back to me.

912
00:47:41.440 --> 00:47:51.440
Who has ever gotten super cute and tried to go make your person jealous.

913
00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:55.600
Try to show them what they were missing out on.

914
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.560
Try to show up where they were.

915
00:48:00.560 --> 00:48:02.000
Oh, are you here too?

916
00:48:02.000 --> 00:48:02.400
Oh yeah.

917
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.520
I just happened to look so good right this minute at the grocery store

918
00:48:07.520 --> 00:48:11.280
that I know that you come to after work at 535 p.m.

919
00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:14.560
All right.

920
00:48:14.560 --> 00:48:16.560
Quite a lot of hands up right now.

921
00:48:17.360 --> 00:48:17.680
Okay.

922
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:27.440
Remembering all the good things that this person ever did or said.

923
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:29.200
Right.

924
00:48:29.200 --> 00:48:31.120
Always focusing on, oh, they're so great.

925
00:48:31.120 --> 00:48:32.000
They're so wonderful.

926
00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:33.040
You know, all the things.

927
00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:38.480
Or recalling only the bad things this person has ever done.

928
00:48:39.120 --> 00:48:41.280
So really extreme, very extreme.

929
00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:42.400
Here's some of the emotions.

930
00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:47.680
Sad, guilty, self-loathing, restless, uneasy, humiliated, hate-filled, uncertain, agitated,

931
00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:51.600
rejected, unloved, lonely, misunderstood, unappreciated, vengeful, angry, fearful,

932
00:48:51.600 --> 00:48:56.560
resentful, frustrated, depressed, hopeless, despairing, jealous, hostile.

933
00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:58.240
You might act out.

934
00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:02.240
If you think someone's breaking up with you or you think that they're withdrawing from you,

935
00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:03.280
then you take it personally.

936
00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:04.000
What have I done?

937
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:05.200
You might say, what have I done?

938
00:49:05.200 --> 00:49:06.880
You know, why don't you love me anymore?

939
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:09.120
You become smothering and needy.

940
00:49:09.120 --> 00:49:11.920
And then it becomes kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, right?

941
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:15.200
You're constantly asking this person why they haven't called.

942
00:49:16.720 --> 00:49:18.560
Let's go down the rabbit trail for a second.

943
00:49:20.080 --> 00:49:23.440
Your boyfriend or girlfriend usually calls you when they leave work for the day.

944
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:24.160
They didn't call.

945
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:25.840
Oh my God, they're mad at me.

946
00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:26.400
What did I do?

947
00:49:26.400 --> 00:49:29.040
Then you start thinking about all the last conversations that you had.

948
00:49:29.040 --> 00:49:29.920
What did I do?

949
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:30.880
Are they mad at me?

950
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:32.000
Why aren't they talking to me?

951
00:49:32.640 --> 00:49:37.520
And then you could leave them a crazy text message because you're acting out, right?

952
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:40.400
I don't know why you're doing this to me.

953
00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:41.280
I love you so much.

954
00:49:41.280 --> 00:49:42.320
Why are you breaking up with me?

955
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.040
I know that that's really extreme, but people do that.

956
00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:46.480
They do it.

957
00:49:47.440 --> 00:49:49.760
And this is where the heart work would come into play.

958
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:51.600
And you would, what would you do?

959
00:49:51.600 --> 00:49:56.640
You would defuse that bomb before it goes off and destroys your relationship.

960
00:49:56.640 --> 00:49:59.840
You would have to immediately understand.

961
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.080
Understand that you're telling yourself a crazy story.

962
00:50:05.080 --> 00:50:12.620
I have a, I have a client, okay, let's just call her Anxious Amber.

963
00:50:12.620 --> 00:50:17.040
And when I'm talking to her, because she tells herself these crazy stories all the time,

964
00:50:17.040 --> 00:50:20.720
I have to say, okay, you're not Anxious Amber anymore.

965
00:50:20.720 --> 00:50:23.520
You're not Anxious Amber anymore.

966
00:50:23.520 --> 00:50:29.160
And she'll, she'll message me and she'll say, oh, I think he's doing this, I think he's

967
00:50:29.160 --> 00:50:30.160
doing that.

968
00:50:30.160 --> 00:50:34.040
And then the next message to me, these are voice messages, she'll say, okay, Jackie,

969
00:50:34.040 --> 00:50:35.240
I hear myself.

970
00:50:35.240 --> 00:50:36.640
I hear myself.

971
00:50:36.640 --> 00:50:37.640
I hear what I'm saying.

972
00:50:37.640 --> 00:50:39.040
I hear myself out loud.

973
00:50:39.040 --> 00:50:46.000
Because what she's saying, you guys, to someone who's not anxiously attached, it sounds crazy.

974
00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.120
And yeah, one in a million times, it might be true.

975
00:50:48.120 --> 00:50:49.520
They really are breaking up with you.

976
00:50:49.520 --> 00:50:51.440
They really are cheating on you with the coworker.

977
00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:56.160
And if you have a tendency to pick those kinds of people, you know, that's why you feel anxious

978
00:50:56.160 --> 00:50:57.160
about it.

979
00:50:57.160 --> 00:50:59.640
Because that's happened to you in the past.

980
00:50:59.640 --> 00:51:02.920
But nine times out of 10, that isn't what's happening.

981
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:06.960
And so if you wait for a little while, you'll see, oh, they're calling you from a landline

982
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:11.120
because their cell phone died or this happened or that happened, you know, there's an explanation

983
00:51:11.120 --> 00:51:12.120
for it.

984
00:51:12.120 --> 00:51:16.440
And it's usually not the one that you're making up in your head when you're freaking out.

985
00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:20.040
But you guys, we have to understand why you're freaking out.

986
00:51:20.040 --> 00:51:22.560
You're fearing abandonment.

987
00:51:22.560 --> 00:51:25.880
And that's where you have to dig in right in that moment.

988
00:51:26.600 --> 00:51:29.600
And you have to ask yourself, why am I afraid of being abandoned?

989
00:51:29.600 --> 00:51:33.400
Why do I feel like if this person leaves me, no one else will ever love me?

990
00:51:33.400 --> 00:51:34.400
Why?

991
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:36.240
Why do I feel that way?

992
00:51:36.240 --> 00:51:40.000
And if you're an anxious, that's dating and avoidance.

993
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.000
Why have you done this thing?

994
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:51.080
You're literally choosing someone who's going to continue to make you feel anxious, right?

995
00:51:51.080 --> 00:51:53.160
That's a terrible combination.

996
00:51:53.160 --> 00:51:54.160
Really bad.

997
00:51:54.440 --> 00:52:01.120
Okay, so you might pick a fight, you might try to make them feel jealous, might attempt

998
00:52:01.120 --> 00:52:07.280
to reestablish contact at any cost, drive by their house 50 times, guys, anxious attachment

999
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:11.400
when there really is a breakup, it ain't pretty.

1000
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:13.640
It usually is not pretty.

1001
00:52:13.640 --> 00:52:20.880
There's usually a lot of crying and driving by the house and texting and different things

1002
00:52:20.880 --> 00:52:23.920
and then trying to, you know, all the things, trying to make them jealous, trying to look

1003
00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:26.800
cute, trying to get them back, trying to manipulate the situation.

1004
00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:33.920
But think about why, because somewhere deep inside of yourself, you believe that this

1005
00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:36.840
person is how you feel loved.

1006
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:42.080
This person, without this person, you're unlovable, you're unworthy, you're unvaluable.

1007
00:52:42.080 --> 00:52:46.280
It's not true.

1008
00:52:46.280 --> 00:52:51.000
Remember, we're complete in Christ, we're whole in Christ, I should say.

1009
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:55.320
And then yes, we are going to become codependent and interdependent, which are the same word

1010
00:52:55.320 --> 00:53:00.080
really, in marriage, we're going to regulate each other's blood pressure, y'all, it's going

1011
00:53:00.080 --> 00:53:01.080
to be great.

1012
00:53:01.080 --> 00:53:02.080
It's going to be great.

1013
00:53:02.080 --> 00:53:06.080
And does that mean if you're in marriage and you have high blood pressure that you're not

1014
00:53:06.080 --> 00:53:07.920
attached and you don't have a good marriage?

1015
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:10.840
Probably, honestly.

1016
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:14.560
And then you're also eating too much Chick-fil-A because that's not the Lord's chicken, y'all.

1017
00:53:14.560 --> 00:53:15.560
It's full of MSG.

1018
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:17.920
It's not the Lord's chicken.

1019
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:18.920
Don't fall for it.

1020
00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:19.920
It's not.

1021
00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:20.920
Okay.

1022
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:27.040
So you might act manipulatively when you feel like that person's pulling away.

1023
00:53:27.040 --> 00:53:28.040
Once again, why?

1024
00:53:28.040 --> 00:53:30.380
Because you're trying to get them to stay.

1025
00:53:30.380 --> 00:53:34.600
And that might lend itself to deception, seduction, manipulation.

1026
00:53:34.600 --> 00:53:42.000
Who will admit that you have used seduction, deception, or manipulation, and you didn't

1027
00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:46.560
know it maybe back then, but now you know it, to try to keep someone in a relationship

1028
00:53:46.560 --> 00:53:48.280
with you.

1029
00:53:48.280 --> 00:53:51.720
I did.

1030
00:53:51.720 --> 00:53:56.960
I manipulated that man right down to the altar at 20 years old and he married me, y'all.

1031
00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:00.200
I got the exact thing that I thought I wanted.

1032
00:54:00.200 --> 00:54:05.520
And the minute that they signed, the officiant signed and said we were married, I started

1033
00:54:05.520 --> 00:54:07.320
operating in avoidant attachment.

1034
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:10.040
I was anxious until I got the guy.

1035
00:54:10.040 --> 00:54:15.440
And then I was massively avoidant, huge, hugely avoidant.

1036
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:17.840
All right.

1037
00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:20.080
Look at all those hands.

1038
00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:23.320
Look at all those hands.

1039
00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:25.920
Okay.

1040
00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:32.400
All right.

1041
00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:35.480
You guys, you know that this is, this is just part two in this series and we're just going

1042
00:54:35.480 --> 00:54:36.480
to be another part, right?

1043
00:54:36.640 --> 00:54:38.520
Because we, this is heartwork.

1044
00:54:38.520 --> 00:54:40.960
This is heartwork around relationship.

1045
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:45.560
Attachment is so important and we have to have hearts that are ready and willing and

1046
00:54:45.560 --> 00:54:48.600
able to attach.

1047
00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:50.120
Ready willing and able to attach.

1048
00:54:50.120 --> 00:54:55.320
And it doesn't matter if you're anxious or avoidant, it doesn't matter if you're secure.

1049
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:57.160
Everyone can attach.

1050
00:54:57.160 --> 00:54:59.800
For some of us, it's going to take a little more work, but we can do it.

1051
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.640
And for those of you that are secure attached, don't allow yourself to get in a relationship

1052
00:55:06.640 --> 00:55:13.960
with someone that is going to change your attachment style to something that's not good.

1053
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:22.080
You have a gift to be able to give and receive love, to not think that everything that someone

1054
00:55:22.080 --> 00:55:25.400
else does is all about you.

1055
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:30.520
So let's make sure that we're not, and so let me go ahead and go there next.

1056
00:55:30.520 --> 00:55:35.240
I'm going to tell you how to gauge someone's attachment.

1057
00:55:35.240 --> 00:55:40.440
You guys, and I don't want you, I don't, listen, when you're sitting there across the table

1058
00:55:40.440 --> 00:55:44.800
from a new person on a date and you're trying to discern them, you're trying to figure them

1059
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:49.960
out, analyze them, it really doesn't give you an opportunity to get to know them.

1060
00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:58.160
But I do want to give you a little cheat sheet on how to crack the code pretty quickly as

1061
00:55:58.160 --> 00:56:02.160
you get to know someone about what their attachment style might be without giving them the link

1062
00:56:02.160 --> 00:56:05.040
to our quiz and saying, Hey, would you take this quiz for me?

1063
00:56:05.040 --> 00:56:06.040
All right, great.

1064
00:56:06.040 --> 00:56:07.480
That'd be great.

1065
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:08.480
Sure.

1066
00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:09.480
Okay.

1067
00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:15.000
So here are some, here are some basic things that the different, the three, the three ones

1068
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:19.800
that we have on our test that, that you can tell right away.

1069
00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:20.800
Okay.

1070
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:25.680
So for in the avoidant category, they usually do send mixed signals.

1071
00:56:25.680 --> 00:56:26.680
Okay.

1072
00:56:26.680 --> 00:56:29.680
They'll pull you close and push you away.

1073
00:56:29.680 --> 00:56:34.240
You might have a great date and a crate, an amazing date where you felt really connected

1074
00:56:34.240 --> 00:56:35.240
to each other.

1075
00:56:35.240 --> 00:56:37.560
And it was super like intimacy was growing.

1076
00:56:37.560 --> 00:56:42.080
And then you don't hear from them for like three weeks.

1077
00:56:42.080 --> 00:56:43.080
Mine's not.

1078
00:56:43.080 --> 00:56:44.080
And you know what?

1079
00:56:44.080 --> 00:56:45.080
I'm not.

1080
00:56:45.080 --> 00:56:46.080
I'm out.

1081
00:56:46.080 --> 00:56:47.080
All right.

1082
00:56:47.080 --> 00:56:53.120
By the way, ghosts are always avoidant attached, right?

1083
00:56:53.120 --> 00:56:55.520
Okay.

1084
00:56:55.520 --> 00:56:57.360
So they send mixed signals.

1085
00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:01.160
They're always talking about their time, their time, they're busy, right?

1086
00:57:01.160 --> 00:57:06.600
They value their independence greatly.

1087
00:57:06.600 --> 00:57:07.600
They're not open.

1088
00:57:07.600 --> 00:57:10.600
They value their independence.

1089
00:57:10.600 --> 00:57:13.920
Okay.

1090
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:15.440
You don't feel valued by them.

1091
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:17.000
You don't feel important to them.

1092
00:57:17.000 --> 00:57:19.520
Even right from the beginning, like the connection isn't important.

1093
00:57:19.520 --> 00:57:21.360
It's not, they're not investing in it.

1094
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:26.040
Or they talk about old partners and you can tell that they've devalued them.

1095
00:57:26.040 --> 00:57:27.040
Okay.

1096
00:57:27.040 --> 00:57:29.480
You can see that in there, right?

1097
00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:33.400
You can see that they're using distancing strategies or like keeping their distance

1098
00:57:33.400 --> 00:57:39.560
from you emotionally or physically, emotionally or physically.

1099
00:57:39.560 --> 00:57:41.560
They're distancing.

1100
00:57:41.560 --> 00:57:43.560
Okay.

1101
00:57:43.560 --> 00:57:51.680
They emphasize the word boundaries a lot.

1102
00:57:51.680 --> 00:57:52.680
And by the way, they got it wrong.

1103
00:57:52.680 --> 00:57:54.080
That's not what boundaries are.

1104
00:57:54.080 --> 00:57:56.680
Boundaries are for connection, not for disconnection.

1105
00:57:56.680 --> 00:57:58.240
All right.

1106
00:57:58.240 --> 00:58:05.640
They have an unrealistically romantic view of how a relationship should be.

1107
00:58:05.640 --> 00:58:07.520
They have, they're idealist.

1108
00:58:07.520 --> 00:58:09.720
They have ideals.

1109
00:58:09.720 --> 00:58:10.720
They're mistrustful.

1110
00:58:10.720 --> 00:58:13.240
They fear being taken advantage of.

1111
00:58:13.240 --> 00:58:16.360
You can tell that in their conversations.

1112
00:58:16.360 --> 00:58:21.080
They seem to have a very rigid view of relationships during any disagreement.

1113
00:58:21.080 --> 00:58:25.000
If you get to know them better and during a disagreement, they need to either get away

1114
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:30.880
or they might kind of explode a little bit, might say some things that aren't appropriate.

1115
00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:32.320
They don't make their intentions clear.

1116
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:36.960
You guys, this is really something you can see very early on in the relationship.

1117
00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:39.000
They're not making their intentions clear.

1118
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:43.680
They're really wishy-washy with their intentions about, are you even going to see you again?

1119
00:58:43.680 --> 00:58:45.360
You know, what are their intentions?

1120
00:58:45.360 --> 00:58:49.440
These are people that you'll never get that DTR, that define the relationship.

1121
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:51.800
That'd be very difficult for them to get that.

1122
00:58:51.800 --> 00:58:55.400
For those of you, have you ever been in a relationship where someone was like, they

1123
00:58:55.400 --> 00:59:01.160
finally said like, I love you and like, I love you and you know, whatever.

1124
00:59:01.160 --> 00:59:07.440
They said that and then they literally broke up with you like two weeks later.

1125
00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:08.480
Those were avoidance.

1126
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:15.440
Those are avoidant attachment style people and that's fun.

1127
00:59:15.440 --> 00:59:17.280
They had a vulnerability hangover.

1128
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:18.480
That's what happened.

1129
00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:25.200
They finally like express need for you and then they freaked out and I know you probably

1130
00:59:25.200 --> 00:59:29.480
thought they were narcissists, but they probably were just avoidance because these people have

1131
00:59:29.560 --> 00:59:36.160
like, I know because I used to be one of these people, super, super, super big fear of being

1132
00:59:36.160 --> 00:59:37.160
trapped.

1133
00:59:37.160 --> 00:59:38.160
Okay.

1134
00:59:38.160 --> 00:59:42.360
And they have difficulty talking about their emotions and about the relationship.

1135
00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:44.840
These are people that don't really talk about the relationship, right?

1136
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:47.040
So here's a cheat sheet for secure.

1137
00:59:47.040 --> 00:59:48.840
They're reliable and consistent.

1138
00:59:48.840 --> 00:59:50.360
They make decisions with you.

1139
00:59:50.360 --> 00:59:54.040
They're, they have a very flexible view of relationships.

1140
00:59:54.040 --> 00:59:56.840
They communicate any issues that they have.

1141
00:59:56.840 --> 00:59:59.880
They allow you to, they give you feedback.

1142
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.000
are good at compromising.

1143
01:00:02.000 --> 01:00:04.840
They're not afraid of commitment or dependency.

1144
01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:07.400
Dependency is not a dirty word for them.

1145
01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:09.840
They don't view relationships as hard work.

1146
01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:13.820
They create moments of closeness

1147
01:00:13.820 --> 01:00:15.420
that creates more closeness.

1148
01:00:16.420 --> 01:00:19.440
They introduce you to friends and family early on.

1149
01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:22.860
Now this could also be for an anxious attachment as well.

1150
01:00:24.120 --> 01:00:26.000
And the way that you're gonna decipher the difference

1151
01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.880
between being introduced too quickly by an anxious

1152
01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:31.440
that wants everyone to like, you know, meet you

1153
01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:33.040
because like, this is the person.

1154
01:00:33.040 --> 01:00:34.240
You know, I want this person.

1155
01:00:34.240 --> 01:00:35.340
You know, I want my family and friends

1156
01:00:35.340 --> 01:00:36.440
to meet you real quick.

1157
01:00:36.440 --> 01:00:38.120
The way you're gonna tell the difference

1158
01:00:38.120 --> 01:00:39.920
is all the other things I just said.

1159
01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:42.360
Okay, so if they wanna introduce you

1160
01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:44.680
to their friends and family really quickly

1161
01:00:44.680 --> 01:00:45.840
and they have all the other things

1162
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:48.560
that I was just talking about, that's how you can tell.

1163
01:00:48.560 --> 01:00:50.400
All right, they don't play games.

1164
01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:53.720
They naturally express warm feelings for you.

1165
01:00:53.720 --> 01:00:55.600
Not inappropriate feelings, right?

1166
01:00:55.600 --> 01:00:57.040
You're not getting love bombed.

1167
01:00:57.040 --> 01:00:58.600
That's anxious attachment.

1168
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:00.160
And usually you guys love bombing

1169
01:01:00.160 --> 01:01:02.560
actually belongs to anxious avoidance.

1170
01:01:02.560 --> 01:01:05.680
They wanna lock you down so that they can lock you out.

1171
01:01:09.600 --> 01:01:10.880
It's so sad.

1172
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:14.000
It's like, who in the world messed you up?

1173
01:01:16.640 --> 01:01:19.240
Right, but it's not necessarily narcissism, you guys.

1174
01:01:19.240 --> 01:01:21.240
You can't gravitate towards narcissist.

1175
01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:24.600
Oh, okay.

1176
01:01:24.600 --> 01:01:26.640
And then last but not least, anxious.

1177
01:01:26.680 --> 01:01:28.800
They want a lot of closeness in the relationship

1178
01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:32.240
usually pretty quickly, right?

1179
01:01:32.240 --> 01:01:34.120
They wanna see you all the time.

1180
01:01:34.120 --> 01:01:36.720
They just feel like they've known you all their lives.

1181
01:01:37.720 --> 01:01:41.520
You're what they've been waiting for all of their life.

1182
01:01:41.520 --> 01:01:44.080
You, little old you, okay?

1183
01:01:44.080 --> 01:01:47.440
They express insecurity a lot.

1184
01:01:48.760 --> 01:01:50.240
They express how they're worried

1185
01:01:50.240 --> 01:01:51.360
that you're gonna find someone else

1186
01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:52.320
or you're gonna cheat on them

1187
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:53.400
or you're gonna like someone else

1188
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:55.480
or you're gonna get sick and tired of them.

1189
01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:57.080
They say these things.

1190
01:01:58.040 --> 01:01:59.880
They express insecurity that they're not as pretty

1191
01:01:59.880 --> 01:02:01.800
as your ex-girlfriend or your ex-boyfriend

1192
01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:03.600
or that you don't have enough in common.

1193
01:02:03.600 --> 01:02:05.840
They're going to express the insecurity.

1194
01:02:05.840 --> 01:02:07.880
They are not going to hide it.

1195
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:10.200
They're gonna say it a lot of times.

1196
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:16.280
They're unhappy when they're not in relationship.

1197
01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:19.640
That's a huge one for anxious attachment.

1198
01:02:19.640 --> 01:02:21.200
They need to be in a relationship.

1199
01:02:21.200 --> 01:02:23.160
They're the people that are in relationship

1200
01:02:23.160 --> 01:02:26.800
after relationship, after relationship, after relationship.

1201
01:02:26.800 --> 01:02:29.400
And if they're not, they're looking for one.

1202
01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:32.640
They play games to keep your attention or your interest.

1203
01:02:32.640 --> 01:02:33.680
They think love's a game.

1204
01:02:33.680 --> 01:02:35.040
They're trying to play games

1205
01:02:35.040 --> 01:02:36.720
to keep your attention and your interest.

1206
01:02:36.720 --> 01:02:39.240
If they think that they're starting to lose your interest,

1207
01:02:39.240 --> 01:02:41.240
they're gonna start playing games with you.

1208
01:02:41.240 --> 01:02:43.880
They have difficulty explaining what's bothering them.

1209
01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:45.360
They want you to guess.

1210
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:46.360
They expect you to guess.

1211
01:02:46.360 --> 01:02:48.560
They have a difficulty expressing their needs

1212
01:02:48.560 --> 01:02:49.400
because why?

1213
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:50.800
They don't feel valued.

1214
01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:53.040
You're not gonna tell someone else your needs

1215
01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:54.640
or your insecurities.

1216
01:02:54.640 --> 01:02:55.480
You can tell them your insecurities,

1217
01:02:55.480 --> 01:02:56.320
but you're not gonna tell another person

1218
01:02:56.320 --> 01:02:57.720
what you need from them

1219
01:02:57.720 --> 01:02:59.560
unless you think that they value you.

1220
01:02:59.560 --> 01:03:02.320
In anxious attachment, people usually don't feel valued,

1221
01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:04.400
so they're not gonna tell you what they need.

1222
01:03:04.400 --> 01:03:05.760
They're gonna expect you to guess.

1223
01:03:05.760 --> 01:03:08.960
And then they're gonna act out when you get it wrong.

1224
01:03:08.960 --> 01:03:10.720
Oh, you really don't love me.

1225
01:03:10.720 --> 01:03:11.880
You don't know me.

1226
01:03:11.880 --> 01:03:14.160
You don't listen when I talk kind of thing.

1227
01:03:14.160 --> 01:03:16.840
They have a hard time not making things about them

1228
01:03:16.840 --> 01:03:17.760
in relationship.

1229
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:19.640
It's all about them.

1230
01:03:19.640 --> 01:03:22.280
And you guys, anxious attachment

1231
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:23.960
that stems in childhood,

1232
01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:26.520
these are children, babies, infants,

1233
01:03:26.520 --> 01:03:29.800
and toddlers and children that are raised by parents

1234
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:31.520
that are usually avoidance.

1235
01:03:32.760 --> 01:03:34.400
So this child is always trying

1236
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:36.480
to get their parents' attention,

1237
01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:40.040
their love, their approval, their appreciation.

1238
01:03:40.040 --> 01:03:42.680
They're always trying to get some scraps

1239
01:03:42.680 --> 01:03:44.320
of some type of affirmation.

1240
01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:47.400
Okay?

1241
01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:48.240
All right.

1242
01:03:49.080 --> 01:03:49.920
Okay.

1243
01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:54.200
They're preoccupied with the relationship

1244
01:03:54.200 --> 01:03:56.080
and with relationship in general.

1245
01:03:56.080 --> 01:03:58.440
They fear that small things that have happened

1246
01:03:58.440 --> 01:03:59.920
will ruin the relationship.

1247
01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:03.880
So they make mountains out of molehills.

1248
01:04:03.880 --> 01:04:07.120
And they are suspicious that you might be unfaithful

1249
01:04:07.120 --> 01:04:08.440
or you might get tired of them

1250
01:04:08.440 --> 01:04:11.360
or you might find someone better than them.

1251
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:12.760
So those are the ones.

1252
01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:13.600
Cool?

1253
01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:17.640
Is anyone feeling helped tonight?

1254
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:18.840
Does anyone feel like,

1255
01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:20.560
hey, I can get to secure attachment

1256
01:04:20.560 --> 01:04:22.720
no matter what my patterns have been in the past.

1257
01:04:22.720 --> 01:04:24.240
I can get there.

1258
01:04:24.240 --> 01:04:27.480
As long as I recognize when I'm doing this

1259
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:29.160
and Holy Spirit's here to help us do that.

1260
01:04:29.160 --> 01:04:30.880
That's what heart work's all about.

1261
01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:32.080
When you start recognizing

1262
01:04:32.080 --> 01:04:34.000
when you're operating in a counterfeit,

1263
01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:35.760
because you guys want to tell you something,

1264
01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:38.880
anything besides secure attachment is a counterfeit.

1265
01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:43.840
And the reason why is because you are already tethered

1266
01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:45.160
and rooted in love.

1267
01:04:46.160 --> 01:04:48.240
You're already rooted in love.

1268
01:04:48.240 --> 01:04:50.640
So these other relationships,

1269
01:04:50.640 --> 01:04:53.600
they're just extensions of already being rooted in love.

1270
01:04:53.600 --> 01:04:55.920
You're already accepted in the beloved.

1271
01:04:55.920 --> 01:04:58.400
You're already seen, known, and loved by heaven.

1272
01:04:58.400 --> 01:04:59.840
All of those things are true.

1273
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:03.120
true, but then you have to make them true for you.

1274
01:05:03.120 --> 01:05:04.120
They are true.

1275
01:05:04.120 --> 01:05:05.520
That's the greater truth,

1276
01:05:05.520 --> 01:05:08.160
but you need to make it your personal truth as well.

1277
01:05:08.160 --> 01:05:10.920
Okay, and that's why hard work is something that we do.

1278
01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:15.040
All right, so we're going to go into breakouts for the next,

1279
01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:17.280
however long you guys can stay, that's fine.

1280
01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:19.240
But this is all prerecorded right here

1281
01:05:19.240 --> 01:05:23.000
so that people that are watching can get the benefit of it.

1282
01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:23.840
And like I said,

1283
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:25.880
we're still gonna do a whole nother path session

1284
01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:27.200
and we're gonna do more work in this.

1285
01:05:27.200 --> 01:05:28.880
We want to dig into this

1286
01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:30.840
because this is what's gonna sabotage.

1287
01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:32.880
These are gonna be your foxes in your vineyard

1288
01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:36.160
that are gonna sabotage your budding love story.

1289
01:05:37.040 --> 01:05:37.880
For those of you that have read

1290
01:05:37.880 --> 01:05:39.560
my Married in 12 Months or Less book,

1291
01:05:39.560 --> 01:05:41.400
these are the foxes in your vineyard.

1292
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:45.200
They're gonna come and destroy the potential

1293
01:05:45.200 --> 01:05:46.480
of relationships in your life,

1294
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:48.920
not just romantic ones, but other ones.

1295
01:05:48.920 --> 01:05:53.920
So we have to begin to dig down into what's going on with us.

1296
01:05:54.560 --> 01:05:56.040
What's going on with us

1297
01:05:56.040 --> 01:06:01.040
so we can attract a better quality of people

1298
01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:02.760
as far as attachment goes,

1299
01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:06.920
and we can be a better quality of attachment for others.

1300
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:08.920
Some other things that I wrote down,

1301
01:06:08.920 --> 01:06:10.360
seven things you can do today

1302
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:12.840
to stop pushing love away if you're avoidant.

1303
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:15.360
You can learn to identify your disconnection strategies.

1304
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:18.520
You guys avoidance, we all have disconnection strategies.

1305
01:06:18.520 --> 01:06:20.520
We might get really excited about someone,

1306
01:06:20.520 --> 01:06:22.320
but then all of a sudden we have a gut feeling

1307
01:06:22.320 --> 01:06:23.480
that they're not the right one for us.

1308
01:06:23.480 --> 01:06:26.000
Guys, that gut feeling cannot be trusted, y'all.

1309
01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:29.040
That is your avoidant tendency.

1310
01:06:29.040 --> 01:06:31.080
It's not God.

1311
01:06:31.080 --> 01:06:34.080
Now, if you already know that they're bad news bears

1312
01:06:34.080 --> 01:06:35.080
and you got with them anyway

1313
01:06:35.080 --> 01:06:36.200
because you think they're sexy,

1314
01:06:36.200 --> 01:06:37.600
then it might be God.

1315
01:06:37.600 --> 01:06:42.040
But nine times out of 10, it's you being avoidant, okay?

1316
01:06:42.040 --> 01:06:46.920
If you start maximizing bad things about someone

1317
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:48.840
and minimizing the good things about them,

1318
01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:51.240
that's avoidant attachment.

1319
01:06:51.240 --> 01:06:53.840
Start noticing that they have one stray nose hair

1320
01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:55.360
and you just can't do it anymore.

1321
01:06:55.360 --> 01:07:00.360
Just cannot look at that nose hair any more.

1322
01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:04.760
It seems silly,

1323
01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:07.680
but people have broken up with people for less.

1324
01:07:07.680 --> 01:07:08.520
They really are.

1325
01:07:08.520 --> 01:07:09.360
They really do.

1326
01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:10.440
All of a sudden, if all of a sudden

1327
01:07:10.440 --> 01:07:13.120
their voice starts to annoy you,

1328
01:07:13.120 --> 01:07:15.960
come on, y'all, who is this true of?

1329
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:19.960
You can't stand the sound of their voice all of a sudden.

1330
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:22.720
They're whiny.

1331
01:07:22.720 --> 01:07:24.560
They're needy to you

1332
01:07:24.560 --> 01:07:27.680
because you don't want anyone to need you, right?

1333
01:07:27.680 --> 01:07:29.480
So you got to learn to identify

1334
01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:33.080
how do you start to tell yourself stories of disconnection?

1335
01:07:33.080 --> 01:07:35.200
How do you start to give yourself permission

1336
01:07:35.200 --> 01:07:36.120
for disconnection?

1337
01:07:36.120 --> 01:07:38.400
If you're an anxious, you need to start,

1338
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:42.440
you learn to identify the anxious stories

1339
01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:43.600
that you're telling yourself.

1340
01:07:43.600 --> 01:07:44.640
What is your pattern?

1341
01:07:46.400 --> 01:07:47.600
What is your pattern?

1342
01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:48.440
Okay.

1343
01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:49.720
And so then number two,

1344
01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:51.520
you're going to step out of independence

1345
01:07:51.520 --> 01:07:53.040
in your everyday life.

1346
01:07:53.040 --> 01:07:54.960
And you're going to start to focus on ways

1347
01:07:54.960 --> 01:07:57.520
that you can cultivate interdependence.

1348
01:08:01.840 --> 01:08:02.680
Just a little ways,

1349
01:08:02.680 --> 01:08:04.280
you guys not within romantic relationship,

1350
01:08:04.280 --> 01:08:05.120
but in little ways,

1351
01:08:05.120 --> 01:08:07.560
asking people to help you with things.

1352
01:08:07.560 --> 01:08:08.520
Even at your job saying,

1353
01:08:08.520 --> 01:08:09.440
hey, can you do this for me?

1354
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:10.960
Can you do interdependence?

1355
01:08:10.960 --> 01:08:13.400
Start relying on other people.

1356
01:08:13.400 --> 01:08:15.040
And okay, so these are tips for avoidance,

1357
01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:17.720
but I'll give you a tip for anxious right here as well.

1358
01:08:17.720 --> 01:08:20.000
Start developing your self-esteem.

1359
01:08:22.640 --> 01:08:25.040
So instead of developing your interdependence,

1360
01:08:25.040 --> 01:08:27.000
start developing your independence

1361
01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:28.479
in the way of, you know,

1362
01:08:28.479 --> 01:08:30.000
spending some time with yourself,

1363
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:30.960
get to know yourself,

1364
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:32.640
get to like yourself.

1365
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:34.760
You're not just valuable when you're in a relationship,

1366
01:08:34.760 --> 01:08:36.800
you're valuable outside of a relationship.

1367
01:08:36.800 --> 01:08:38.479
What does that look like for you?

1368
01:08:38.479 --> 01:08:39.319
Right?

1369
01:08:39.319 --> 01:08:41.880
Third, this is for avoidance.

1370
01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:44.319
Find a secure partner

1371
01:08:44.319 --> 01:08:46.920
and stay far away from anxious attachment styles

1372
01:08:46.920 --> 01:08:48.399
because it's a vicious cycle.

1373
01:08:49.680 --> 01:08:52.279
You can tell right away if someone's anxiously attached,

1374
01:08:52.279 --> 01:08:53.960
you can see right away.

1375
01:08:55.040 --> 01:08:56.760
And if you're an avoidant,

1376
01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.319
don't take that person on Mr. Toad's wild ride with you.

1377
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:01.720
You know, you're going to break their heart.

1378
01:09:01.720 --> 01:09:02.920
Why would you do that?

1379
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:04.200
They're going to drive you crazy

1380
01:09:04.200 --> 01:09:07.800
and you're going to crush them like a buck.

1381
01:09:07.800 --> 01:09:09.200
Why would you want to do that?

1382
01:09:09.200 --> 01:09:11.520
Let's not do that to each other.

1383
01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:12.479
Just say no.

1384
01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:17.120
I know that those are trauma bonds

1385
01:09:17.120 --> 01:09:18.399
that want to attract to each other,

1386
01:09:18.399 --> 01:09:19.240
but just say no,

1387
01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:20.920
this is what hard work looks like.

1388
01:09:20.920 --> 01:09:23.600
Recognize it and say no to it.

1389
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:24.439
Right?

1390
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:28.120
Be aware of your tendency to misinterpret behaviors.

1391
01:09:29.439 --> 01:09:31.200
This is for anxious and avoidant.

1392
01:09:31.200 --> 01:09:35.160
Be aware of your tendency to put the wrong story

1393
01:09:35.160 --> 01:09:37.240
on what's happening.

1394
01:09:37.240 --> 01:09:39.080
You're misinterpreting behaviors.

1395
01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:40.200
So for avoidance,

1396
01:09:40.200 --> 01:09:42.200
if you find yourself becoming Judge Judy,

1397
01:09:43.240 --> 01:09:44.760
you're criticizing in your mind

1398
01:09:44.760 --> 01:09:47.560
every single thing this person's wearing, doing, saying.

1399
01:09:49.040 --> 01:09:52.120
Your avoidant style is coming out.

1400
01:09:52.800 --> 01:09:56.720
You're trying to find permission and validation to run.

1401
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:02.600
And then for you anxious people,

1402
01:10:02.600 --> 01:10:04.640
if you start finding yourself becoming,

1403
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:07.880
you know, anxious Amber,

1404
01:10:07.880 --> 01:10:08.920
trying to grab a hold,

1405
01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:10.000
grab a hold of their leg

1406
01:10:10.000 --> 01:10:11.200
while they're trying to walk away.

1407
01:10:11.200 --> 01:10:12.040
Don't leave me.

1408
01:10:12.040 --> 01:10:13.760
They're just going to the bathroom, y'all.

1409
01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:14.600
They're allowed.

1410
01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:15.480
They can go to the bathroom.

1411
01:10:15.480 --> 01:10:17.040
It's okay.

1412
01:10:17.040 --> 01:10:19.120
Gotta recognize what you're telling yourself

1413
01:10:19.120 --> 01:10:23.320
in these moments of regular separation within relationship.

1414
01:10:25.480 --> 01:10:26.320
Okay?

1415
01:10:26.320 --> 01:10:27.840
Even a secure attached person

1416
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:31.240
is not going to want to be smothered by an anxious.

1417
01:10:31.240 --> 01:10:33.040
They might put up with it for longer

1418
01:10:33.040 --> 01:10:33.960
than an avoidant would,

1419
01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:35.840
but they're not going to want it long-term.

1420
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:37.320
So you got to work on you.

1421
01:10:37.320 --> 01:10:38.400
You got to do you, boo.

1422
01:10:38.400 --> 01:10:39.960
You have to.

1423
01:10:39.960 --> 01:10:41.480
All right?

1424
01:10:41.480 --> 01:10:45.800
So dig deeper into why you're thinking the worst

1425
01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:47.960
about others intentions,

1426
01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:49.480
whether you're avoidant or anxious.

1427
01:10:49.480 --> 01:10:50.720
Why, why, why?

1428
01:10:50.720 --> 01:10:52.680
In those moments when you're having those thoughts

1429
01:10:52.680 --> 01:10:55.200
is the best time to do that hard work right then.

1430
01:10:55.200 --> 01:10:57.400
Why am I feeling this way?

1431
01:10:57.400 --> 01:10:59.640
Why am I thinking these things?

1432
01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:01.400
When was the first time I ever felt this way

1433
01:11:01.400 --> 01:11:04.520
or thought these things about someone in my life?

1434
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:06.560
Guys, you can get free.

1435
01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:09.600
You can get free right in these moments.

1436
01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:11.080
Remember how I always tell you

1437
01:11:11.080 --> 01:11:12.760
that you can do all the work with us,

1438
01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:14.560
but then when you start getting into relationship,

1439
01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:16.040
that's when we're really going to see the real,

1440
01:11:16.040 --> 01:11:17.560
the real hard work that needs to be done.

1441
01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:19.880
This is what I'm talking about.

1442
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:21.160
It's going to come to the surface.

1443
01:11:21.160 --> 01:11:23.280
I'm sad to say we've had people

1444
01:11:23.280 --> 01:11:25.480
that have not fully unpacked this.

1445
01:11:25.480 --> 01:11:26.880
They refuse to.

1446
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:28.960
And then they went and got married in this program

1447
01:11:28.960 --> 01:11:30.480
and they're already divorcing

1448
01:11:32.440 --> 01:11:35.520
because of a specifically avoidant attachment.

1449
01:11:37.320 --> 01:11:39.120
It was fine and dandy during the courtship,

1450
01:11:39.120 --> 01:11:42.000
but when it came time for that person to move

1451
01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:44.760
and live together and give up their independence

1452
01:11:44.760 --> 01:11:47.120
and their single life in their space,

1453
01:11:47.120 --> 01:11:48.520
they didn't want to do it.

1454
01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:50.320
They couldn't do it.

1455
01:11:50.320 --> 01:11:51.880
They started to feel claustrophobic.

1456
01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:53.080
They started to feel controlled.

1457
01:11:53.080 --> 01:11:55.000
They started to feel, they farted.

1458
01:11:55.000 --> 01:11:55.840
They didn't fart.

1459
01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:56.680
They started.

1460
01:11:57.480 --> 01:11:59.280
They might've farted, but they started as well.

1461
01:11:59.280 --> 01:12:01.040
To push that other person away,

1462
01:12:01.040 --> 01:12:03.440
they started to tell stories

1463
01:12:03.440 --> 01:12:05.120
about what this person was trying to do to them,

1464
01:12:05.120 --> 01:12:06.120
which isn't true.

1465
01:12:07.240 --> 01:12:10.680
I'm trying to help you not sabotage your future here.

1466
01:12:12.160 --> 01:12:15.520
Okay, so be aware of your tendency to misinterpret.

1467
01:12:15.520 --> 01:12:18.680
Make a list every day.

1468
01:12:18.680 --> 01:12:19.760
For you that are avoidant,

1469
01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:22.000
make a list every single day

1470
01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:24.520
of all the relationships in your life

1471
01:12:24.520 --> 01:12:26.240
and how grateful you are for them.

1472
01:12:27.160 --> 01:12:29.280
How your life would be empty without relationships.

1473
01:12:29.280 --> 01:12:31.120
Because remember, avoidants are loners.

1474
01:12:31.120 --> 01:12:33.000
They're lone wolves.

1475
01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:34.680
They have toxic independence.

1476
01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:38.320
You guys, we've been created to be interdependent.

1477
01:12:38.320 --> 01:12:41.200
And then with our spouses, codependent.

1478
01:12:41.200 --> 01:12:42.120
Go ahead and get used to it.

1479
01:12:42.120 --> 01:12:43.000
I'm going to keep saying it

1480
01:12:43.000 --> 01:12:45.400
because it is not the word that you think it is.

1481
01:12:47.040 --> 01:12:48.880
And for those of you that have broken free

1482
01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:50.720
from people that truly were narcissists

1483
01:12:50.720 --> 01:12:52.040
and you were the enabler

1484
01:12:52.040 --> 01:12:53.560
and they were an addict of some sort

1485
01:12:53.560 --> 01:12:54.640
and they were an abuser,

1486
01:12:54.640 --> 01:12:55.720
I know that's a trigger for you,

1487
01:12:55.720 --> 01:12:57.880
but that's not what it means.

1488
01:12:57.880 --> 01:13:01.040
Okay, we're not talking about trauma bonding.

1489
01:13:01.040 --> 01:13:02.360
We're talking about coming together

1490
01:13:02.360 --> 01:13:03.600
like the book of Genesis says,

1491
01:13:03.600 --> 01:13:05.600
and the two becoming one.

1492
01:13:05.600 --> 01:13:07.120
That is what we're talking about.

1493
01:13:07.120 --> 01:13:09.840
And then for those of you that are anxious,

1494
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:12.120
make a list every day about how great you are

1495
01:13:13.080 --> 01:13:16.760
and how grateful you are for yourself

1496
01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:19.920
and all the great things that you said or did that day

1497
01:13:19.920 --> 01:13:21.920
and how God feels about you.

1498
01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:23.800
Make a list, okay?

1499
01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:26.640
All right, six, stop fantasizing

1500
01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:28.840
about the one that got away.

1501
01:13:28.840 --> 01:13:32.560
When you find yourself idealizing some other person,

1502
01:13:33.440 --> 01:13:35.160
whether it's someone else's spouse

1503
01:13:35.160 --> 01:13:36.600
or some ex of yours

1504
01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:39.640
or some person that you liked or crushed on from a distance

1505
01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:41.600
but never were in relationship with,

1506
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:43.400
just know that what you're doing here

1507
01:13:43.400 --> 01:13:45.960
is you're giving yourself permission for disconnection

1508
01:13:45.960 --> 01:13:47.760
and you're going to use that as a strategy

1509
01:13:47.760 --> 01:13:51.800
in a future relationship to stay in the past

1510
01:13:51.800 --> 01:13:53.560
instead of focusing on the future.

1511
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:55.800
Okay?

1512
01:13:55.800 --> 01:13:57.720
And for you anxious attachers,

1513
01:13:57.720 --> 01:14:01.160
stop acting like the person you're in relationship with

1514
01:14:01.160 --> 01:14:02.120
is better than you.

1515
01:14:03.400 --> 01:14:05.200
You're great.

1516
01:14:05.200 --> 01:14:09.240
Stop idolizing them or idealizing them.

1517
01:14:10.800 --> 01:14:13.520
And oh, if they left me, I would just be nothing.

1518
01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:15.720
No, you're something, you're something important.

1519
01:14:15.720 --> 01:14:19.120
And so you have to start to unpack where that's coming from.

1520
01:14:19.120 --> 01:14:20.520
And then last but not least,

1521
01:14:21.520 --> 01:14:23.640
I don't, you guys know that I believe in spirit mates,

1522
01:14:23.640 --> 01:14:24.480
all right?

1523
01:14:24.480 --> 01:14:26.240
So I'm not disputing soulmate.

1524
01:14:26.240 --> 01:14:29.600
I believe soulmate is a portion and a part of spirit mate.

1525
01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:30.800
Okay, so I do believe that,

1526
01:14:30.800 --> 01:14:33.760
but we have to get rid of the idea of the one.

1527
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:36.440
The one is whoever you decide to do the work with.

1528
01:14:36.440 --> 01:14:37.720
That's who the one is.

1529
01:14:37.720 --> 01:14:38.560
The one is the person

1530
01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:40.600
that you decide to make a commitment to

1531
01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:42.040
and you choose them

1532
01:14:42.040 --> 01:14:44.200
and you allow them to get close to you.

1533
01:14:45.040 --> 01:14:47.400
And you will, you know,

1534
01:14:47.400 --> 01:14:49.080
you allow yourself to attach.

1535
01:14:49.120 --> 01:14:50.840
You allow yourself to attach.

1536
01:14:50.840 --> 01:14:53.080
That's who the one is.

1537
01:14:53.080 --> 01:14:55.920
And there's a whole spectrum of people

1538
01:14:55.920 --> 01:14:58.880
that could fit that at different seasons of your life.

1539
01:14:58.880 --> 01:15:00.880
All right, so I'm gonna let you go ahead.

1540
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:07.040
We don't really have a plan here as far as closing us up, but we're so glad that you

1541
01:15:07.040 --> 01:15:12.160
all came tonight, you know, just, just take some time to unpack the things that Jackie

1542
01:15:12.160 --> 01:15:16.000
talked about, things you learned in your breakout and throughout the discussion.

1543
01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:21.080
And really, you know, we always do this in heartwork, ask the Lord to show you if there's

1544
01:15:21.080 --> 01:15:26.420
any revealing for healing, is there any area like where you can implement, like even those

1545
01:15:26.420 --> 01:15:30.920
positive things that Jackie said, like if you're, I think it was the anxious, like telling

1546
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:32.860
you, writing down, what are you thankful for?

1547
01:15:32.860 --> 01:15:33.860
What's going well?

1548
01:15:33.860 --> 01:15:34.860
What did you do?

1549
01:15:34.860 --> 01:15:37.340
Well, you know, those things and really use those tools.

1550
01:15:37.340 --> 01:15:40.020
You guys, those are like gems.

1551
01:15:40.020 --> 01:15:43.100
If you will implement that stuff, it will change your life.

1552
01:15:43.100 --> 01:15:44.100
Okay.

1553
01:15:44.100 --> 01:15:45.100
All right.

1554
01:15:45.100 --> 01:15:47.260
So we're, we have our next path session.

1555
01:15:47.260 --> 01:15:51.940
Now there are other events in the rest of the month, but I just want to say the next

1556
01:15:51.940 --> 01:15:56.260
past session, that is going to be the continuation of this will be February.