Philosophy for Life
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Philosophy for Life
You're Not in Love, You're Addicted to the Chaos
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Description
Ever caught yourself overanalyzing texts, obsessing over silence, or riding emotional highs and lows in relationships? That feeling isn't love – it's addiction to emotional chaos, and it runs deeper than you might realize.
Your attraction to turbulent relationships isn't random. If your childhood featured unpredictable love and attention, your nervous system learned to equate chaos with familiarity. What feels like passionate connection is often trauma bonding playing out in real-time. Research shows adults who experienced emotional neglect are 67% more likely to seek out relationships that mirror this instability. The neurochemistry is fascinating – these emotional rollercoasters activate the same brain pathways as cocaine, creating a literal withdrawal when you try to walk away.
The most unsettling truth? Peaceful, stable connections often feel boring or suspicious when you're wired for chaos. Your brain has learned to interpret emotional spikes as love and calm as disconnection. Breaking this cycle requires courage – cutting contact completely, practicing regulation through therapy and mindfulness, and gradually retraining your system to recognize that love shouldn't hurt. As Brené Brown wisely noted, love isn't something we give or get – it's something we nurture within ourselves first.
Ready to break free from the addiction to relationship chaos? Join me on this journey to wholeness. If my words resonated, consider buying me a coffee through the link below. I'm also meeting one-on-one with 50 subscribers to hear your stories and create content that truly serves. Your peace is possible – and it's the most radical choice you can make.
I'm Coach Darron Brown, a self-improvement coach, and I run the Philosophy for Life podcast. Here, I'm just sharing fitness and life advice.
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0:00 - Introduction to Relationship Addiction
1:00 - Why Chaos Feels Like Home
2:06 - Drama Bonds vs Real Connection
3:02 - Craving Emotional Spikes
3:57 - Healing From Relationship Addiction
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Have you ever been in a relationship where one moment you feel on top of the world and then the next moment you find yourself questioning everything? You feel the push and the pull in the relationship and you wonder what you did wrong or how you can make things better? You find yourself overanalyzing every conversation, every text message, the silence, and you've convinced yourself that this is love. But this isn't love. It's an addiction, an addiction to emotional chaos. Hi, I'm Coach Deron. I help people break free from destructive cycles, process unresolved trauma and become the best version of themselves from the inside out. If anything that I say resonates with you, feel free to buy me a coffee. There's a link in the description below. Also, I'm meeting with 50 of my subscribers. The purpose of meeting with you is to hear your story so that I can create content that truly resonates and serves my audience. If you're interested in speaking to me one-on-one, there's a link in the description to that too.
Speaker 1:Now I'm going to break this down into four sections. The first thing we're going to talk about is why chaos feels like home. Next, we're going to talk about drama bonds versus real connection. Third, we're going to talk about craving emotional spikes. And lastly, we're going to talk about healing from the addiction, so let's get into it. So why does chaos feel like home? If your childhood was filled with unpredictability, meaning one day you were hugged and the next day you were silenced and you were punished, you learn to develop a survival system around inconsistency and now, as an adult, relationships with chaos. They don't scare you, they feel familiar. That's because your nervous system is wired for unpredictability Chaos. To you, it equals attention and even if it hurts, it feels right because it mirrors your emotional history. Carl Jung said until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. You keep finding the same partner, not because you love chaos, but because you haven't unlearned that that's not real love. And when it comes to drama, bonds and real connections, these push and pull relationships that you get into, that's not love. That's trauma bonding in real time. That's emotional dependency tied to the highs and lows of the relationship. Your brain gets hooked on the chase and the relief after the conflict.
Speaker 1:A 2021 study in frontier psychology found that adults who experience emotional neglect were 67% more likely to seek out emotionally unpredictable relationships. Why? Because those relationships re-trigger unresolved patterns, when we are taught that suffering is love, we begin to look at pain as a sign of intimacy. Real love isn't found in chaos, it's found in calm. And if calm is foreign to you, it won't feel safe. It won't feel safe until you learn to rewire your nervous system to really understand what connection really is. You begin to crave emotional spikes in your relationships. Let me explain. When you've lived in emotional chaos long enough, intensity becomes your emotional compass. You think if it doesn't hurt a little, that's not love. But that's not real love, that's adrenaline.
Speaker 1:Researchers in the Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology found that emotional instability in relationships trigger the same brain activity as substance addiction. In other words, the roller coaster of hot and cold love lights up the same brain pathways as drugs like cocaine. So when you try to walk away, that's not just emotional, it's neurological withdrawal. And that's why peace feels boring to some of you. That's why some of these nice guys seem like they're just they're boring. There's no connection. It's because your brain doesn't trust it.
Speaker 1:Yet the only way to get past this is to learn how to heal from the addiction. So how do you heal from this? Number one cut off your emotional supply. No checking their social. No responding late night texts. No need to detox. Step two relearn regulation, therapy, journaling, stillness. Learn how to sit with peace until your nervous system no longer rejects it. Step three rebuild trust through safe spaces. Choose people and environments that feel predictable, steady, boring, even until boring feels safe. Because when you're addicted to chaos, peace is the new rebellion. You've already been through enough. You don't need to find somebody to complete you, to fix you or to break you even more. You need stability, wholeness and groundedness. Brandy Brown said it best love is not something that we give or get. It's something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each of them. First, you were never meant to survive on scrapes. You were meant to be loved without confusion, without pain, without chaos. Thank you for listening. Like comment, subscribe and I'll catch you next time.
