Coaching practices for Is it Normal to Fall in and Out of Love
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- After the baby, the move, the hard year, we just quietly stopped reaching for each other
- We still love each other but every week is the same loop
- I keep falling for the same kind of person and ending up in the same painful place, and I’m torn between deciding I just chose wrong again and wondering what I was actually reaching for in them that I’ve never quite named.
- I can never answer "what do you love?" when someone asks me straight out
- We have the same fight over and over with different words on top, and in the moment it always feels like it’s their fault
Practices that may help
- Rekindling after a drift: returning to aliveness
Recognize a drift in erotic connection as normal — and name it as the beginning of a renewal, not a failure.
Mating in Captivity: Sustaining Desire in Long-Term Relationships - Do novel, moderately challenging activities together
New and slightly difficult shared experiences restore the self-expansion that keeps closeness alive.
Self-Expansion Model: How Relationships Grow (and Stagnate) Us - Understand why you’re attracted to someone opposite -- without pathologizing it
The initial attraction in the anxious-avoidant pairing is genuine; understanding what drove it prevents repetition.
The Anxious-Avoidant Trap: Why Opposites Attract and Then Struggle - Follow flow as a clue
Track the activities where time disappears — they point toward love and skill at once.
Ikigai, Honestly Explained - Recognize your demon dialogue -- the negative cycle running your relationship
Every stuck couple has a predictable negative loop; naming it together is the first step out.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - Behavioral confirmation audit: how are you treating your partner?
Regularly examine whether your daily behavior toward your partner confirms their ideal self or their non-ideal self.
The Michelangelo Phenomenon: How Partners Sculpt Each Other - Treat rupture as normal, not as failure
Disconnection in close relationships is inevitable; the standard is repair, not perfection.
Rupture and Repair - Review whether your key relationships are season-appropriate
Some relationships that sustained you in a past season may be misaligned with your current one — and vice versa.
Seasons of Life - Identify and name your negative cycle
Every stuck couple has a predictable escalation pattern -- naming it lets you step outside it.
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Sue Johnson's Framework for Lasting Bond Repair - Understanding and managing the lure of alternatives
Recognize when comparison to alternatives is inflating their apparent quality — and how to recalibrate.
The Investment Model of Commitment: Why People Stay (and Why They Leave)
Related concerns
- Can You Fall In And Out Of Love
The initial attraction in the anxious-avoidant pairing is genuine; understanding what drove it prevents repetition.
Understand why you’re attracted to someone opposite -- without pathologizing it
- Can You Fall In And Out Of Love With The Same Person
The initial attraction in the anxious-avoidant pairing is genuine; understanding what drove it prevents repetition.
- Why Do I Keep Making The Same Mistakes In My Relationship
Regularly examine whether your daily behavior toward your partner confirms their ideal self or their non-ideal self.
Behavioral confirmation audit: how are you treating your partner?
- Can You Be In Love With Someone And Not Know It
Track the activities where time disappears — they point toward love and skill at once.
Follow flow as a clue
- Eft Couples Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Sue Johnson, is a couples intervention grounded in attachment theory: it treats distress in close relationships as an attachment injury, and focuses on creating new emotional experiences that rebuild the sense of safe, reliable connection. EFT has one of the stronger evidence bases in couples therapy, with multiple randomized controlled trials showing sustained improvement -- though findings are not uniformly positive and many studies are small.
- Flooding Couples
If you are flooded, take a real break and signal it clearly -- then return.
Self-soothe and signal when stonewalling
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