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How to Have a Romantic Relationship With a Person Who Is Relationship Phobic
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8 Lessons|ByRhonda Findling

How to Have a Romantic Relationship With a Person Who Is Relationship Phobic

Taken by 4,816 people

Someone comes along who proposes a fling or friends with benefits. They're attractive. There's a connection. They seem, however, to give strong indications that they have severe intimacy issues. Should you take a risk and get involved or play it safe and take a pass? Most self-help books and courses will advise readers to stay away from people who are relationship phobic. The truth is that many people will take the risk and get involved anyway despite the warnings. Why? Because people long for intimacy, sex, companionship, and love even if the person they're connecting to isn't emotionally available.

Besides, times have changed in the age of the internet and technology. Sexuality is so much more fluid. Relationships have become more flexible and creative. Is there anything wrong or dysfunctional with flings or short-term experiences of love and relationships when there's no certainty of a future? If you are not attached to the traditional notion of a long-term relationship, you may be willing to take the chance on someone who may not seem entirely interested in commitment. It can be challenging to navigate intimacy with a relationship phobic person, but it's not impossible.

Cultivating the Connection

People who are "relationship phobic" have a very hard time with emotional closeness, but at the same time do not like too much distance, due to their own needs and desires for intimacy. This course explores and analyzes the psychological limitations and challenges a relationship phobic person struggles with as well as the causes of their behavior. The course also gives advice on how to stay in connection with a relationship phobic person when they're distancing, how to psychologically cope with their avoidant behaviors, and how to manage a relationship with them.

This course will help you to:

  • Manage a relationship with a relationship phobic person.
  • Determine what a person's relationship capacity is.
  • Support yourself psychologically while in a relationship with a relationship phobic person.
  • Understand the prototype of a relationship phobic person.
  • Determine whether or not you want to take the risk on a romantic relationship that may be short term or time limited with a person who is relationship phobic.

What is included in this course:

  • Understanding the kinds of feelings a relationship phobic person struggles with.
  • Understanding the defense mechanisms a relationship phobic person uses to lessen their anxiety.
  • How the "claustro-agoraphobic dilemma" and the "compulsive need to let people down" causes people who are relationship phobic to avoid relationships.
  • How the pursuit of the idealized fantasy person causes someone who is relationship phobic to avoid relationships.
  • The "compromise" relationship that people who are relationship phobic offer.
How to Have a Romantic Relationship With a Person Who Is Relationship Phobic
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How to Have a Romantic Relationship With a Person Who Is Relationship Phobic
Taken by 4,816 people
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
$55.00 USD Value • Pay What You Want
$19.00$35.00$55.00
This is the total amount for all lessons.
Pay extra to give more to our instructors and to help create new courses. No matter how much you pay, you'll get the same course as everybody else.
What People Are Saying
“Thanks to this course and some self-awareness about my patterns, I feel that I am ready to reject the unavailable people in my life and focus on the available ones. I must admit this is very scary for me and my critical list is going nuts in my head!! But I have to chuck that and focus on the good qualities of the available person in front of me. I am finally ready for something healthy and lasting.”
Megan
“I joined this course because I am a relationship phobic person. I am not dating right now because I have become terrified of relationships, and I want to understand why. This course is very helpful in describing what I'm struggling with through the perspective of those who are willing to get closer.”
Kristen
“The characteristics listed in the lessons described our relationship exactly, it was the validation I needed to justify leaving him. Which I did almost a year ago. I'm taking this course to understand why I got into a relationship with him in the first place and what I need to know about people going forward.”
Cyndi
“This course has really helped me understand my relationship phobic man, and how I should manage the relationship.”
Rene
“This course, and reading the discussion, has helped me to realize I absolutely do not want to continue in a relationship with my ex-avoidant. It has been slowly fizzling and this has helped me realize that I do not want to revive it. Thank you for the reality check.”
Kimberly
“I started doing this course because I suspected that the person I'm in a relationship with is relationship phobic. However, as the course has continued I've noticed that I have qualities/reactions that point towards having a relationship phobia. We're both as bad as each other. However, this is helping me to be aware of my behavior.”
Natalie

Meet Your Teacher

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Rhonda Findling

Rhonda Findling is a psychotherapist with an international practice based out of Atlanta, Georgia. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Stonybrook University in New York and a master's degree in clinical psychology from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She worked as a staff psychotherapist for Post Graduate Center for Mental Health in New York City for 13 years. Rhonda has also worked as a psychologist for the State of New York for 3 years and United Cerebral Palsy of NYC for 1 year. She was a counselor at Victims Information Bureau where she counseled victims of rape, sexual assault, and spouse abuse. Rhonda is a bestselling author of several books, and she has been featured in national publications and has appeared in talk shows and radio shows.

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