Personality Types that avoid intimacy

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Among the many personality types that avoid intimacy.  Avoid intimacy long enough and the trust, the love, the connection is broken and we up in silent divorce.

Seven Types of Intimacy Avoiders - Which Group are You in?

Emotional immaturity - we have not matured to the point of being ready for adult intimacy.

Emotional woundedness - do to lack of love bonding in childhood we failed to gain the capacity for adult loving intimacy.

Flight from life - an avoidant personality with a high need for privacy, control of appearances and risk avoidance.

Super-responsible - so busy caring for others and keeping order that intimacy is avoided (John and Paula Sandford: Parental Inversion).

People Pleasing - our identity lost as we respond by doing what other's expect, being good, doing right, being nice (Performance Orientation).

Dominating Personality - often fearing vulerability or being a victim (again) we dominate and overpower everyone and grab control.

Deepening trust and loyalty issues - hypervigilant to possible threat, in deep need for total loyalty, we have the tendency to become isolated and paranoid.

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