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Why You Feel So Much in Love, The Inner Child, Attachment Wounds, and the Truth About Your Heart


Why You Feel So Much in Love

The Inner Child, Attachment Wounds, and the Truth About Your Heart

Why You Feel So Much in Love

The Inner Child, Attachment Wounds, and the Truth About Your Heart

If you feel everything deeply in love…you are not too much.

If you find yourself:

  • Thinking about him constantly

  • Feeling anxious when he pulls away

  • Wanting closeness… and then feeling overwhelmed by it

  • Replaying conversations in your mind

You are not broken.

You are bonded.


You’re Not Reacting—You’re Remembering

What you feel in romantic love is rarely just about the man in front of you.

It’s about something older. Something deeper.

It’s about your first experiences of love.

As a little girl, you learned:

  • What love feels like

  • Whether it stays or disappears

  • Whether it feels safe… or uncertain

And your body remembered.

So now, when a man:

  • Pulls away

  • Becomes inconsistent

  • Opens… and then closes

Your reaction isn’t just emotional.

It’s somatic.

Your body is remembering what it felt like to not feel fully chosen, fully seen, or fully safe.


Why You Can’t Just “Calm Down”

So many women try to think their way out of this:

“I just need to relax.”“I shouldn’t feel this way.”“I need to be more secure.”

But this isn’t a mindset issue.

It’s a nervous system response.

Your body goes into:

  • Fight (over-explaining, trying to fix)

  • Flight (pulling away, shutting down)

  • Freeze (overthinking, stuck in loops)

Because love has become linked with activation.


When You’re Drawn to Him… Even When It Hurts

One of the most confusing parts of attachment is this:

You can feel deeply connected to someone who also deeply triggers you.

Especially if he:

  • Comes close… then distances

  • Loves you… but won’t fully choose you

  • Opens his heart… but can’t stay consistent

This creates a powerful loop:

  • You feel him

  • You lose him

  • You crave him more

This isn’t weakness.

This is intermittent bonding—and it runs deep in the body.


Your Sensitivity Is Not the Problem

Your depth…your capacity to feel…your ability to love—

These are not things to fix.

But they do need support.

Because without regulation, your sensitivity can turn into:

  • Anxiety

  • Obsession

  • Emotional exhaustion

Not because you’re too much—but because your system hasn’t learned how to feel safe in love yet.


How We Begin to Heal This

This is where real healing begins—not by suppressing your feelings, but by learning how to hold them.


Somatic Stress Release

We don’t bypass the body—we go into it.

We allow:

  • The tightness in your chest

  • The drop in your stomach

  • The waves of emotion

To move, instead of staying stuck.

Your body begins to realize:“I can feel this… and I am still safe.”


Breathwork for Emotional Release

There are layers inside you that talking cannot reach.

Breathwork helps you:

  • Release stored grief

  • Move anxiety out of the body

  • Access deeper emotional truth

It softens the urgency.It creates space.

And slowly… the grip loosens.


Conscious Relationship Work (Imago-Based)

When you’re in relationship, your partner becomes a mirror.

Not to blame. But to understand.

You begin to see:

  • What you’re projecting

  • What is actually happening

  • What your inner child is needing

And instead of reacting…

You learn how to relate.


When He Is Your Opposite

If you are someone who wants closeness, and he pulls away—

It can feel unbearable.

But here’s the deeper truth:

He is not “wrong” for being who he is. And you are not wrong for needing what you need.

The pain comes when you try to:

  • Change him

  • Earn his consistency

  • Abandon yourself to keep the connection


The Hardest Truth (and the Most Liberating One)

Sometimes…

The most loving thing you can dois let him be exactly who he is.

Even if that means:

  • He cannot meet you

  • He cannot choose you fully

  • He cannot love you the way your heart needs

And choosing to walk awayis not failure.

It is self-honoring.


This Is Where You Come Back to Yourself

Healing attachment isn’t about becoming someone who doesn’t feel.

It’s about becoming someone who:

  • Can stay with herself

  • Can regulate her body

  • Can choose from clarity instead of fear

So that love becomes:

  • Grounded

  • Safe

  • Reciprocal


You Are Not Too Much—You Were Just Never Fully Held

And now…

You get to learn how to hold yourself.

Gently. Patiently. Honestly.

And from that place—

You will no longer chase love.

You will recognize it.


Love as Medicine

The right love won’t activate your wounds without also supporting your healing.

And the deeper your relationship with yourself becomes…

The less you will settle for anything that pulls you out of alignment.

This is your work. This is your power. This is your return.

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