Why You Keep Choosing Emotionally Unavailable People with Sabrina Zohar

Do you struggle with anxious attachment, keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners, or find yourself repeating the same unhealthy relationship patterns? In this episode of The Tamsen Show, relationship expert Sabrina Zohar explains the four attachment styles, the anxious-avoidant relationship cycle, and how to heal relationship anxiety and build more secure relationships.

Why do we chase people who pull away? Why can one unanswered text send us spiraling? And how do we stop confusing anxiety with chemistry?

At 55, after two divorces, I’ve learned just how much our relationships shape our lives. I’ve had my own Mr. Big, questioned my worth over men who couldn’t give me what I needed, and spent years trying to understand why I kept repeating the same patterns.Today, Sabrina Zohar, author of Why Am I Like This? and host of The Sabrina Zohar Show, is helping us connect the dots.

We explore how childhood experiences influence adult relationships, why anxious and avoidant attachment styles can create painful push-and-pull dynamics, and how to recognize the emotional triggers that keep us stuck.

Most importantly, Sabrina explains how we can begin developing secure attachment, set healthier boundaries, and make different choices in love.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

- The four attachment styles: secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized

- How to recognize anxious attachment in your own relationships

- Why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in the same painful cycle

- Why you’re attracted to emotionally unavailable people

- How childhood experiences shape your adult relationship patterns

- How to stop overthinking texts, rejection, and emotional distance

- What it takes to develop a more secure attachment style

- How to approach dating after divorce, heartbreak, or a long relationship

- Why choosing to stay single can sometimes be connected to fear

- How to build healthier relationships in the next chapter of your life

Whether you’re single, dating, married, divorced, or starting over, this conversation is about understanding yourself and the patterns that influence your relationships.Because the people we choose, and the relationships we build, have an enormous impact on the lives we lead.