Stop Running from Love: Three Steps to Overcoming Emotional Distancing and Fear of Intimacy

by Dusty Miller EdD

Are you afraid of or unable to create intimacy or closeness with your intimate partner? Do you find that sometimes you create emotional, communicative, or even physical distance from that special someone in your life, even when, deep down, you really don't want to? If so, you share the relationship style psychologists refer to as the distancer. Distancers are often afraid of being engulfed or controlled by their partners. They fear rejection, vulnerability, and dependence. Sadly, they also tend to have short and unhappy relationships. If you want to stop running from love in your life, this book offers a simple, step-by-step approach you can use to move beyond your fear of intimacy and start building strong and lasting relationships. The exercises and self-evaluations in the book will help you become aware of how you operate in romantic relationships. You'll review and reassess your relationship patterns, deciding what changes you want to make in future relationships. Then you'll commit to actions that can make it happen.

232 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2008

Reviews

[patricio]

Amazing book

I'm still learning from it and aplying all that I've learned but for me this book can be a life changer since I've never been in a couple with a woman and I'm 35, but I didn't give up. I'm just a distancer and I want to change that by doing what the author teaches me to do at my own pace and running the risks that I can take.