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Why Deep Intimacy Is Nearly Impossible When You’re in Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn
When you’re in fight, you might become defensive or reactive.
When you’re in flight, you may withdraw, shut down, storm out, hang up on, or avoid.
When you freeze, you can go numb, dissociate, or lose words.
When you fawn, you appease, over-function, apologize for something you didn’t do, or say “it’s fine” even when it isn’t.
These are not flaws, they’re survival strategies. But when one or both partners are cycling through them, intimacy suffers. Connection requires emotional availability and regulation, and both are nearly impossible when the nervous system is on high alert.