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THE ESCAPIST - The Easy Going One
You’re not trying to avoid people. You’re trying to get out of the feeling.You step away because staying in it for too long costs you more than it seems to cost other people.You like to keep some space. Just enough to feel okay.That space isn’t random.It’s how you keep yourself together.The PatternWhen a relationship begins, you show up enough. You make a connection.But as the expectations to communicate grow and the question “where is this going?” comes up, something changes. You pull back. Not always outwardly. Not always in a way that anyone can point to.You might still be there physically, but emotionally, you step back slightly. It’s not a decision. It’s a reflex.Staying in it for too long starts to feel draining, so your system finds a quieter way to get through it.The Trait You Struggle With You don’t think of yourself as distant.You think of yourself as low-drama and pretty self-contained.But sometimes you notice something else. You drift away from things before you fully realize you wanted them. You leave situations without a clear reason. You feel relief when it’s over. And then you feel nothing at all.It’s not sadness. It’s more like absence.One Thing to NoticeThis pattern doesn’t only show up in relationships.At work, you tend to check out instead of forcing yourself to keep going. When it comes to money, it’s easier not to deal with it. In your body, you kind of go numb. With your friends, you’re the one who disappears for a while and then comes back. In life in general, you need a break when it starts to feel like too much.Love just makes it easier to notice.What Happens NextOver the next 7 weeks, I’ll send you 7 emails about The Escapist Love Template.We’ll look at how it formed, why it keeps repeating and what starts to shift when stepping away isn’t the only way to feel okay anymore.No pressure to open up. No need to push yourself. Just noticing, at your pace.You might see parts of yourself in more than one template. This one just shows the pattern that comes up most often.