12/13/2023
We pick our partners based on familiarity!
I, like everyone else, think my mom cooks the best food. It’s not that my mom is the best cook in the world; rather, I grew up with her food, and her food is familiar to me, and I enjoy food whenever it tastes like hers.
If a little girl lacks proper intimacy with her father, she may have trouble forming real intimacy with other men when she grows up. She will be attracted to a man with whom she can’t form a fulfilling intimate relationship because he brings up similar emotions that she felt with her father. She craves intimacy with both of them.
Not all familiar experiences are healthy and pleasant, like your mom’s food. If you’re attracted to familiar toxic behaviors or people, you need to understand the root of that desire, heal from it, and choose a healthier alternative. In the beginning, it may feel uncomfortable or strange, but you’ll acquire a taste for better "food".