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

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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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