166: Losing Strategy #5: Withdrawal (And Why It Slowly Kills Your Relationship)

You shut down. You go silent. You walk away.

You think you’re protecting yourself. But you’re actually killing your connection.

In this final episode of the 5-part series on losing strategies, Lilly breaks down withdrawal, the pattern she’s struggled with most. She explains the difference between withdrawal and taking a responsible timeout, why your nervous system goes into freeze or flight, and how to build your capacity to stay in the room when conflict gets hard.

This is Part 5 (the final episode) of a 5-part series on the losing strategies that sabotage your relationship and how to interrupt the cycle.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• What withdrawal really is (physically or emotionally leaving from resignation or retaliation)

• The difference between withdrawal and taking a responsible timeout

• What withdrawal looks like

• Why your nervous system goes into freeze or flight during conflict

• Why withdrawal is one of the most destructive patterns in relationships

• How to recognize when you’re about to withdraw (awareness of your body’s signals)

• How to take a responsible timeout

• How to ground yourself during a timeout

• Why you need to build capacity to stay in the uncomfortable

• The one question that changes everything

Connect with Lilly:

• Work 1:1 with Lilly: support@growthovereasy.com

• Book a free call: https://calendar.app.google/HEj4hbVcy1u8eToF9