{"id":5590,"date":"2017-09-27T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babe.net\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2025-02-07T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:06:29","slug":"this-is-why-youre-repulsed-the-minute-they-start-to-like-you-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2017\/09\/27\/this-is-why-youre-repulsed-the-minute-they-start-to-like-you-back\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why you\u2019re repulsed the minute they start to like you back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;The chase&quot; is the most common phrase when it comes to dating. It&#x27;s all about &quot;the chase&quot; and trying to catch someone. But then this thing happens where the minute the person we&#x27;re chasing admits to liking us, we freak out.  <\/p>\n<p>We think we&#x27;re repulsed by their newfound neediness or desperation but the truth is, we&#x27;re repulsed by them being vulnerable and asking us to do the same. <\/p>\n<p>We&#x27;re repulsed because of our own intimacy issues \u2014 it has nothing to do with the other person.<\/p>\n<div data-rosebud-block=\"tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you ever start to like someone and then when they start to like you back get scared and stop liking them or is that just me<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; annmarie\ud83c\udf4d (@annmatweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annmatweet\/status\/775825844585410560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 13, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The minute things start to seem like they could be <em>more<\/em> is the minute we begin to freak the fuck out. Jesse Kahn, LCSW, the director and supervisor of The Gender &amp; Sexuality Therapy Collective in New York, told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.uk\/showed-too-much-interest-turn-off-causes?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Refinery 29<\/a> &quot;when a relationship becomes more intimate, it becomes more vulnerable, and [people] can become more easily hurt.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Basically, we pull away to protect ourselves from potentially getting hurt. Which is fair.  \u201cIn fact, some people can find safety in being rejected, because it&#x27;s more normal for them,\u201d Kahn says. <\/p>\n<p>There&#x27;s also a chance we pull away because someone who texts us eagerly might come across as too desperate and dependent. There&#x27;s a sense of immaturity that we perceive from someone who doesn&#x27;t play the texting game but instead texts back soon and often. But that&#x27;s also an issue for you to address with yourself, not the other person. <\/p>\n<div data-rosebud-block=\"tweet\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoyfulHensly\/status\/912980683525578752\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to stop being weird and try to solve your intimacy issues, Kelley Johnson, PhD, a clinical sexologist based in North Carolina, says to &quot;think about what your examples of intimacy and love were in past partnerships and in your family life.&quot; You might be able to see connection between a past relationship and the reason you run from intimacy now. <\/p>\n<p>Good things take time and if we all run at the first sign of intimacy we&#x27;re all going to be swiping on Bumble well into our 50s. Someone liking us is not a bad thing. And while being vulnerable does provide a chance to be hurt it also provides a chance to find something spectacular. <\/p>\n<p>It&#x27;s not them, it&#x27;s you. 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