Why do I freak out in relationships so easily?
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Updated: Jun 4, 2022
Theserainydays
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Oct 28, 2016
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I don't know if you're anything like me, but if you are, here are a couple of possibilities:
1) You're sort of a hot mess when it comes to your self-esteem. Especially at the start of a relationship, when you're completely lovestruck and think the other person hung the moon, you start to worry if you're good enough, if you're worthy of that perfect person, if you deserve to be loved. Sometimes I get so discouraged when I meet a cool person who seems to have it all figured out; they've got a job and a car and they're mentally stable and they have interesting hobbies and supportive friends. And here I am, eating dry cereal out of the box because I bought raspberry lemonade instead of milk. I don't want that person to get close enough to see what a mess I really am--that's a mix of pride and stubbornness and shame. And I don't want to be a burden on them. So I back away from the relationship.
2) You have no clue what you're doing, maybe because you don't really know what a healthy relationship looks like. My family didn't really model healthy relationships for me, and my first experiments in romance ended in disaster. When I look back on my history, it can be really discouraging.
3) That person isn't the right one for you. Sometimes your body/mind/intuition/gut are trying to send you a message. Not every relationship fails because you have low self-esteem and your parents divorced when you were a kid. Some people just aren't meant to be together.
Anonymous
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Apr 29, 2016
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I freak out in relationships so easily becauseI'm scared I might hurt the person I love I don't want to
AngelBoo
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Apr 9, 2016
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Reasons I tend to freak in relationships..
1) I'm afraid to make mistakes
2) I'm nervous that they'll stop liking me
3) I don't know if I'm ready to commit to more
4) I have high anxiety an stress to much over everything
bestMango10
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May 18, 2016
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Relationships can be scary, it's something new. You just need to stay calm and see where it goes and not worry too much about the what ifs just focus on being happy in a relationship.
Bettershapes
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Apr 22, 2016
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Relationships can be tricky and can make a person go crazy, You could care about the person to much, and want them all to yourself all the time, or you could not care about them enough and maybe need to let them go. Sometimes people just arent cut out for relationships until they can further develope their own personality.
sugglet244
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Mar 24, 2016
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some people feel out of their comfort zones and dont know how to pace it. take it slowly and be yourself and youll go far!!
Anonymous
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May 22, 2016
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You may freak out in relationships because you are scared to do something wrong or scare off the other person. You want to impress them, and want them to be with you forever.
0Sara0
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Jul 2, 2016
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I guess we freak out in relationships so easily because its so valuable to us. We try our absolute best not to mess up, just not to lose it. But the process of trying our absolute best not to mess up, can often lead us to have more anxiety. Freaking out on every single detail like why did he just answer with a fine, is he angry with me. I guess we just have a little more faith that our boyfriend's love for us. Also if you girlfriend freaks out easily like me, take it postively that she loves you so much that she is worried to upset you. Understanding like this would lead to middle ground and a happy relationship!
ladyscorpio18
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Apr 29, 2016
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When we are in love we expect most things to be just fine or beyond perfect. We even wanted to do the things we see in romantic movies. But when things get rough we started to get panic. You know why? it is because we are afraid of failures, we are afraid to get hurt, we are not ready to lose that someone and most specially get betrayed. When we commit in a relationship we give it all and the fact that there is no guarantee that it will work out fine at the end of course it freaks us out but i guess its just part of being in a relationship. Being in a relationship is also just like a BET. We don't know if we're going to lose or win.
CiaraSmiles
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May 21, 2016
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The risk of being hurt I generally enough to cause some anxiety in some people. It is normal to feel this way.
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