Steady and Connected

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Avoidant Partner Withdrawal: Reading It Without the Panic

2026-10-1117:28

Episode 17 — Avoidant Partner Withdrawal: Reading It Without the Panic New to Steady and Connected? Episodes 1–16 set up the foundation — start there if you're new. You read their three-word reply again, looking for the tone in it. And what makes this one confusing is that the weekend was good. By Monday evening they're in the shed, or on the laptop, and nothing happened in between — you've been back over the whole weekend twice looking for the moment it turned, and there isn't one. Wit...

Talking to Your Partner About Anxious Attachment: How to Start

2026-10-0418:09

Episode 16 — Talking to Your Partner About Anxious Attachment: How to Start New to Steady and Connected? Episodes 1–15 set up the foundation — start there if you're new. You've decided to tell them. You've been deciding for about three weeks, and every time you get close to it, the sentence comes out wrong in your head. One version sounds like a complaint about them. The next one sounds like an apology for existing. A third one has the word attachment in it, and you can already see their ...

Anxious Attachment in a Long Marriage: The Way Back

2026-09-2719:35

Episode 15 — Anxious Attachment in a Long Marriage: The Way Back New to Steady and Connected? Episodes 1–14 set up the foundation — start there if you're new. You have been married several years, and this week you found yourself checking what time they got in. You haven't done that since early in your relationship. You know the house, the routine, the person. And still, on Tuesday, you stood in the kitchen working out how long it had been. Almost everything written about anxious attachm...

Partner Goes Quiet: How to Stay Steady in the Silence

2026-09-2018:26

Episode 14 — Partner Goes Quiet: How to Stay Steady in the Silence New to Steady and Connected? Episodes 1–13 set up the foundation — start there if you're new. They come in, put their keys down, and say almost nothing. Not sharp. Just less than usual. Forty minutes later they're at the other end of the couch with their phone, and you have run the day back twice looking for what you did. A quiet evening can be harder to sit with than an argument, and there is a clear reason for that. Th...

Earned Secure Attachment: What Steadier Actually Feels Like

2026-09-1319:00

Episode 13 — Earned Secure Attachment: What Steadier Actually Feels Like New to Steady and Connected? Episodes 1–12 set up the foundation — start there if you're new. The reply comes in at ten past nine. You read it, you answer it, and you put the phone face down on the arm of the chair. A bit later, you notice what you have actually been thinking about, and it isn't the message. It's the two hours before it. Most people arrive at real change convinced they haven't started. There's a re...

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