How To Be In A Relationship With A Love Avoidant

Love avoidance is a trauma response rooted in childhood emotional parentification, not a personality flaw or lack of love. Trauma recovery specialist Kenny Weiss explains what causes a person to become love avoidant, why they shut down intimacy, and what your realistic options are if you want to save the relationship.

A love avoidant partner avoids emotional intimacy because closeness triggers their deepest childhood wound — being smothered, controlled, and forced to parent a caregiver or sibli