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Why You Shut Down and I Can’t Let It Go

  • Writer: bethpiercetherapy
    bethpiercetherapy
  • Dec 10
  • 1 min read

You want to talk. They shut down.

You need closeness. They need space.

You’re stuck in the same pattern again and again.


In this video, I break down the Wave/Island dynamic (also known as Pursue/Withdraw), and explain how nervous system differences, not personality flaws, create the cycle.


✨ You’re not the problem. The pattern is. Let’s change it.



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