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When fear of intimacy prevents moving in with your partner

My girlfriend of three years wants to move in together but I keep finding reasons to delay because I'm terrified she'll see how messy and chaotic my actual life is and leave me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The vulnerability required for deeper commitment activates old wounds about being truly known and potentially rejected.

Ideas that help explain it
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