🔥❄️ No Playbook for Dating: When Unpredictability Feels Like Home
Related Childhood Experiences
People with this dating style often experienced these childhood situations:
Abusive parentAlcohol abuse in the familyAlcohol and or drug addicted parentBullying at homeChronic abuseChronic exposure to parental sexual behaviorChronic manipulationCritical parentDepressed parentDrug abuse in the familyDysfunctional familyEmotional abuseEmotionally unstable parentExposure to age-inappropriate sexual contentExposure to parental infidelityExposure to parental sexual behaviorGaslightingGroomingHypersexualized home environmentImmature parent
Related Dating Styles
Other patterns that often appear alongside No Playbook for Dating:
💃🏻Acting Out for Love
When Having Full Attention Is The Only Way to Be Loved
parental attention traumacrisis bondingattention fights
🧮Always Doing The Math
💪Braced for Independence
🌊Come Here, Go Away
When love feels real only when it hurts
ambivalent attachment traumapush-pullemotional intensity
✋Guarding Against Heartbreak
🦶Keeping One Foot Out the Door
💓Loving and Hating Intensely
🔥Loyal to Your Abusers
When defending your abuser feels like love
love-pain wiringtrauma bondsbetrayal loops
💃🕺Same Dance, Different Partners
When chasing unavailable love feels like home
conditional love traumaabandonment triggersemotional whiplash
💫Whiplashed in Relationships
🧠Wired for Crisis