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urge awareness

Urge Surfing for Relationship Anxiety: Riding Out the Pull

Urge surfing for relationship anxiety is a dialectical behavior therapy-based mindfulness technique that lets emotional urges — the pull to check their profile, re-read the messages, send the…

anxious attachment

How to Stop Checking Your Ex’s Profile in the Moment

You already know you shouldn’t. You know it won’t help. You know what you’ll find — or worse, what you won’t find — and you know how it…

urge awareness

Gap Between Urge and Action: What Happens in That Moment

There is a moment you might not know exists yet. It is the gap between urge and action — the space between the pull toward your phone, the…

anxious attachment

Why Do I Keep Re-Reading Texts Over and Over?

You’ve already read it. You know what it says. And yet you open the thread again. Re-reading messages – old texts, a conversation that ended badly, something they…

limerence

Limerence vs Love: Can They Coexist?

Limerence and love can coexist. You can love someone and feel limerence for them at the same time, and you can love a partner while feeling limerence for…

anxious attachment

What Is Compulsive Checking in Relationships?

You have already looked. You know nothing has changed. And yet you are back — refreshing their profile, opening the thread again, checking to see if they have…

limerence

What Is Limerence? Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About Them

If you’re here because one person takes up most of your thoughts, and you check their profile even after promising yourself you won’t, there is a name for…

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