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How to recognize your own fear of intimacy

I keep choosing emotionally unavailable people and my therapist says it's because I'm afraid of real intimacy but I genuinely don't know what that fear would feel like.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unconscious protection of the heart often masquerades as conscious romantic preference.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What love ultimately is — the examined final question?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.