Understanding the practical and emotional-psychological reasons will help you avoid getting too attached to a person. But if you are already attached, there is a solution for that too. So, how to not get attached to someone?

Reasons For Attachment

1. Practical reasons for attachment:

Your partner fulfills something significant to you. It could be solving your loneliness, embodying something you’ve always desired, enabling a more regular sexual life, or providing financial security, etc.

You get attached too quickly to partners because they (finally) bring something you’ve wanted for so long. And then you recognize that he or she will give it to you. Also, that’s why it’s important to keep them and start investing in that relationship even more (energy, effort, finances, etc.), and because of that, that person becomes even more important very quickly. You invested a lot in that relationship.

Everything we invest in becomes important.

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Resolution For Practical Reasons

It’s essential for a person to understand what the partner fulfills or provides and to realize that these needs can be met elsewhere. Regardless of whether they actively seek alternatives, the essence is for the person to stop turning their partner into an institution. And a thought: An institution alone can provide what you want, and no one else can.

The partner is not exclusive. He or she simply provides something essential to you, thereby increasing their real value.

You need to find a way to provide yourself with what you want so much. And not for them to be your only source of that.

But let’s understand each other: Of course, we need people who bring something to our lives, but it is necessary that they connect well with us.

2, Emotional-Psychological Reasons for Attachment

Internal factors can also be responsible for why you’ve become attached to your partner. For instance, you may have found someone who closely resembles someone from your childhood, exhibiting similar traits as your father or mother.

I like to say that people get another chance with a similar person—a chance for something beautiful or a chance for a retest (if you haven’t had the opportunity to resolve issues with your parents). If you’ve got a chance for something beautiful, you probably don’t need to seek solutions in this blog. If you have a chance for a retest, then keep reading.

First, you must understand that with the same or similar personality types, you cannot achieve different results.

Consider this example: You found a cold person because their coldness reminds you of your mother, for instance. You’ve become attached to them, subconsciously desiring a warmer relationship with them. The fact is, you cannot achieve a different outcome on this retake. Coldness is part of their character. So with similar characters, you will always get a similar result.

My advice is to check if you’ve become attached to someone because their character resembles someone with whom you have “unfinished business” and understand that dynamic. The person isn’t so special; he or she simply gives you an opportunity to finally correct something that has troubled you for a long time. Probably from childhood.

Our inner being is naive and connects things in this way: a similar person is my new opportunity to correct something that hurts me and make it stop hurting.

We believe that the person who caused our pain is the only one who can ease it. So when we no longer have a chance to do so with them (because the dynamic repeats with them), we look for someone who is similar to:

1. We repeat those internal cycles/habits.
2. To get the opportunity to resolve that dynamic with a better outcome.
   We want a similar person to love and accept us, for example.

If you are unable to pay for a therapist, then you are left to deal with this problem yourself.

Take some time to think and answer these questions for yourself:

• Understand where your need for fast or strong binding comes from?
• Is the background the lack of love you have experienced? Or some fear?
• If you were honest with yourself, what would you say, what makes bonding emotionally satisfying for you?
• What type of people are you particularly attached to?
• What are their characteristics?
  do you still need what they give you… i mean, you’ve grown up a bit in the meantime.
• Can you somehow eliminate that emotional feeling?
• Is there anything you can do to eliminate it?

Also, if you want to avoid getting too attached, try not to idealize people before you really get to know them. You should avoid projecting your needs or desires onto them based on superficial resemblances to what you think you need. You can’t truly understand a person until you’ve spent enough time with them.

Don’t place people on pedestals just because they remind you of what you’re looking for. Avoid forming attachments based on incomplete information, as you may discover aspects about them that you don’t like. This approach can help you stay emotionally grounded and don’t get too attached.

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