Why do I keep attracting the same type of person or repeating relationship patterns?

The collective unconscious doesn't judge or blame—it just works. Jung called this the archetype of the Other: we project onto partners, friends, bosses the qualities we've disowned in ourselves. You're not attracted to them; you're attracted to completing yourself through them. If you keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners, somewhere in you lives an Innocent or Lover archetype that needs emotional safety but doesn't believe you deserve it. So you prove it again and again by choosing someone who confirms that belief. Patanjali's yoga wasn't only about asana—it was about *seeing* the mind's patterns without judgment, then slowly rewiring them through practice. The same applies here. The pattern repeats because some part of you still needs what that dynamic offers: proof, protection, familiarity, even suffering if you grew up believing you didn't deserve ease. This isn't your fault. But it *is* your responsibility now that you're aware. Start by getting curious instead of ashamed: What does this pattern *give* me? What fear would I face if I stopped? The answer is usually not "I'm broken." It's "I'm protecting something that once protected me." That's where real change begins.