This May Well Be the Silent Issue Sabotaging Your Relationships
- samantha francis
- Aug 11
- 2 min read
You say you want a healthy relationship. And you mean it. But your nervous system doesn’t always agree.
Because wanting love and being able to hold it without panic, sabotage, or over-analysis are two completely different things.
Here’s what no one tells you: You’re not just reacting to your partner. You’re reacting to what your identity is wired to expect.
If your baseline experience of connection is:
being dismissed
Waiting to be chosen
walking on eggshells
Then anything stable, kind, or mutual might feel boring. Or worse...dangerous.
Why? Because your nervous system has learned to equate unpredictability with love. It’s familiar. And your identity is built around surviving that familiarity.
So even when love is finally safe, it feels off. You pull away. You poke holes. You try to fix what isn’t broken.
This is the silent issue: your nervous system can’t hold what your standards are asking for.
The Secure Identity Method shifts that. We work at the level of your emotional blueprint, not just the behaviour. So you stop reacting from your past and start receiving from your now.
Because you don’t need better tools. You need an identity that doesn’t flinch at healthy love.
What You Can Do Right Now:
Practice nervous system expansion by noticing and staying with moments of calm (instead of reaching for the familiar chaos).
Each time you feel the urge to sabotage, ask: “What would my secure self believe in this moment?”
Use daily inner talk that is specific to safety, rather than worthiness. Example: “I am allowed to relax into love.”
Ready to build the version of you who doesn’t sabotage good love?
Get in touch to learn more about the Secure Identity Method today. Let’s rewire what your nervous system calls ‘normal' and let me know in the comments if the tips helped!




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