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Why we repeat family patterns in romantic love

I keep falling for people who remind me of my father, who was emotionally unavailable, and I know this pattern but cannot break it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unconscious seeks to resolve childhood wounds by recreating familiar dynamics, mistaking repetition for healing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology?”

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