Alexia McLeod

Alexia McLeod I am the President and CEO of Therapeutic Center for Hope, Inc., a premier psychotherapy practice that conducts therapy in the comfort of your own home.

✨ Licensed Mental Health Therapist | Mindset Coach ✨
🌸 I help people break free from mental struggle 🌸
Lets Talk: https://alexiamcleod.com/

Access Youre Free E-Book 📖: https://bio.site/alexiamcleod My goal is to provide Solution Focused and Goal Oriented therapy tailored for your specific needs. Specialties range from adoption and home study services to postpartum therapy, infertility issues, depression, grief, adjustment, anxiety, divorce, and marriage/ family issues. I am a licensed and dedicated therapist, giving feedback while being careful not to impose my own values or opinions. Only you hold the answers to your success. You are the expert. I serve as the tool that will assist for you to access the potential you desire. Your success is up to you. I consider it a privilege to be a part of your decision to improve your life.

02/09/2026

If an avoidant ex comes back, it’s rarely random.
And it’s almost never because “everything clicked.”

It usually happens after the distractions wear off.
After the space they wanted starts to feel like isolation.
After they realize connection isn’t as easy to replace as they thought.

So yes — this is often the moment they return.

But this is not a sign you’re supposed to try again.

It’s a moment that asks you to slow down and assess.

Before you let them back in, ask yourself:
Are they coming back with accountability — or just access?

Because wanting comfort is not the same as wanting commitment.
Missing you is not the same as choosing you.

Pay attention to what they’re offering.
Are they naming their patterns?
Are they taking responsibility for the distance, the shutdowns, the emotional inconsistency?

Or are they hoping things can just “feel good again” without changing anything?

And if you’re the avoidant one considering coming back, this matters too:
If you haven’t done real work — therapy, education, reflection — not just time passing…
then coming back will only reopen wounds you never learned how to tend to.

They don’t owe you another chance.
Trust isn’t automatic anymore.
It has to be earned — slowly and consistently.

And this is exactly why I wrote Secure Your New Way Into a Healthy Relationship.

Because moments like this are where unresolved childhood attachment shows up the loudest.

This guide helps you understand how early experiences shape adult relationships, how to stop repeating avoidant and anxious cycles, how to set boundaries without guilt, and how to create a relationship that’s actually secure — whether you’re the one who pulls away or the one who keeps getting hurt.

You can get your free copy through the link in my bio.

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02/08/2026

Give your partner their love language.
Learn it.

Not yours.
Not what comes easiest for you.
Not what you think should count.

What makes them feel loved.
What makes them feel chosen.
What reaches them.

Because love isn’t just intention…
it’s translation.

Learn how your partner receives love.
Then give it that way.

That’s how connection grows.

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02/08/2026

Your pain is real.
But it is not a license to destroy the people around you.

Healing is responsibility.
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02/08/2026

An anxious heart rarely says what it truly means.

It doesn’t say, “I’m trying to control you.”
It says, “Please don’t leave.”

It doesn’t say, “I don’t trust myself.”
It says, “Why aren’t you responding?”

This is what makes anxious attachment so painful: the need is real, but the strategy becomes self-abandoning.

And when anxious attachment meets avoidance, the relationship becomes unequal. One person is always reaching. The other is always asking for space. The anxious partner feels like they’re starving. The avoidant partner feels like they’re suffocating.

Both are dysregulated. Both are protecting something.

But love cannot be built inside a cycle of pursuit and withdrawal.

If you’re anxious, you deserve more than someone who only shows up halfway. And if you’re dating someone anxious, they don’t need perfection — they need steadiness.

You get to ask: is this relationship helping me heal… or keeping me activated?

Follow this page if you want to break these patterns.

And this is exactly why I wrote Healing Your Way Into a Healthy Relationship — a grounded guide to help you stop repeating the same emotional habits, stop reenacting childhood attachment wounds, and finally learn what secure love looks like in real life.
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02/07/2026

This is where the story often gets rewritten — quietly.
Avoidant attachment doesn’t always announce itself as fear. Sometimes it disguises itself as independence, self-sufficiency, and “needing space.” Distance feels productive. Detachment feels mature. Until the connection is gone and the emptiness has no one left to blame.

If you’re dating an avoidant partner, this is why you can’t argue someone into emotional presence. The realization doesn’t come from more explaining or more patience — it comes when the relationship is no longer doing the regulating for them. Navigating this dynamic means knowing when to stop compensating and allowing the natural consequences of emotional distance to speak for themselves.

And to the avoidant reading this: independence without emotional access isn’t strength — it’s protection. If time alone is revealing what you avoided feeling in the relationship, that awareness matters. But clarity without change just turns into repetition. Whether you want this person back or you’re starting over with someone new, staying will require learning how to tolerate closeness instead of reframing withdrawal as self-care.

A relationship can work — but not if one person is growing and the other is guarding. Mutuality requires presence, not just autonomy.

So you get a choice.

If you want to learn how to be with an avoidant partner without abandoning yourself, follow this page — we teach how to stay grounded without over-functioning.
And if reading this helped you name a pattern you’re no longer willing to live inside of, that clarity is self-respect.

Follow for more — we’re breaking down avoidant dynamics, their impact on partners, and what secure connection actually demands.

02/06/2026

Things that feel important in a relationship change.
People change.
Needs change.
Priorities change.

And sometimes…
your partner doesn’t want the same things anymore.
Or it feels that way.

So you come home irritated.
Agitated.
On edge.

But pause for a second.

Ask yourself:
Why do I feel this way when I walk through the door?
What am I carrying?
What am I needing?
What am I afraid to say?

Before you point outward,
look inward.

Identify what’s going on with YOU first.

Then bring it to your partner with honesty.
Not accusation.
Not blame.

Just truth.

Because maybe they don’t know.
And maybe…
they’ll want to help.

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02/06/2026

You can care about someone…
and still walk away from what hurts you.

Empathy is not permission.
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02/06/2026

Loving an avoidant partner often feels like living in emotional contrast.

Moments of closeness that feel real.
Then distance that arrives without warning.
Affection that exists — but isn’t consistent.

So let’s slow this down and talk to both sides.

To the avoidant partner:
When intimacy deepens, your nervous system doesn’t experience it as comfort — it experiences it as pressure. Commitment, expectations, and emotional needs can feel like something you’ll eventually fail at. So you delay, go quiet, or pull back to protect yourself from feeling trapped or inadequate. But avoidance doesn’t freeze the relationship in place — it quietly erodes trust.

Your silence doesn’t pause the relationship.
It shifts the weight of it onto your partner.

To the person dating the avoidant:
You’re not imagining the mixed signals. You’re responding to real inconsistency. One moment you feel chosen, the next you feel emotionally alone. Over time, this creates anxiety, self-doubt, and a constant urge to “figure out” what you did wrong — even when you didn’t do anything at all.

Here’s what’s usually happening underneath:
• The avoidant regulates through distance
• You regulate through connection
• Their withdrawal creates safety for them, but instability for you
• You end up carrying the emotional continuity of the relationship

A relationship with an avoidant partner can work — but it requires a lot of self-regulation on your end, and eventually, intentional healing and accountability on theirs. Love alone doesn’t resolve attachment wounds. Awareness and effort do.

So you get to be honest with yourself.

If you want to stay and learn how to navigate this dynamic without losing yourself, follow this page — we talk about avoidant attachment, anxious partners, and what secure relationships actually require.
And if reading this made you realize this isn’t a cycle you want to keep living in, that clarity is not failure. It’s self-respect.

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02/05/2026

When you love someone,
you want to do nice things for them.

It’s natural.
It’s easy.
It feels good.

Then life happens.

They say something.
You feel hurt.
You feel misunderstood.
Now you feel some type of way.

And suddenly love feels harder to access.

Real love isn’t just what you feel
when everything is good.

It’s what you choose
when life gets messy.

Learn to love around the stress.
Around the misunderstandings.
Around the hard moments.

Not by ignoring what hurts…
but by staying connected through it.

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02/05/2026

This is not about hope.
And it’s definitely not about fate.

This is about patterns.

Avoidant partners don’t usually come back because they suddenly became emotionally available.
They come back when the distance they needed starts to feel like emptiness.

When there’s no one left to distract them.
No one absorbing their silence.
No one making emotional connection feel optional.

So yes — they often return.

But what matters isn’t that they came back.
It’s how they came back.

Are they reaching out because they miss being chosen?
Or because they’ve actually learned how to choose differently?

Because there’s a big difference between:
“I miss you”
and
“I understand how I hurt you, and I’ve done the work to change.”

Don’t confuse familiarity with safety.
And don’t mistake someone’s return for proof they’re ready.

Slow this moment down.
Excitement clouds judgment, especially when unresolved attachment wounds are involved.

And if you’re the avoidant one thinking about coming back, be honest with yourself:
Are you returning because you’re lonely — or because you’re capable of staying?

If you haven’t done real work — therapy, reflection, education — not just time passing…
don’t reopen a door you’re not prepared to walk through fully.

They don’t owe you access anymore.
Trust has to be rebuilt from the ground up.

That’s why I wrote Secure Your New Way Into a Healthy Relationship.

Because moments like this are where people repeat cycles instead of breaking them.

This guide helps you understand how childhood experiences shape adult attachment, how to stop reenacting the same dynamics, how to set boundaries that protect your nervous system, and how to build a relationship that’s healthy — whether you’re the one who pulls away or the one who keeps getting pulled from.

Get your free copy through the link in my bio.

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My goal is to provide Solution Focused and Goal Oriented therapy tailored for your specific needs. As the founder CEO of Therapeutic Center for Hope, a premier psychotherapy practice that conducts therapy in the comfort of your own home, my expertise ranges from adoption and home study services to postpartum therapy, infertility issues, depression, grief, adjustment, anxiety, divorce, and marriage/ family issues. I am a licensed and dedicated therapist, giving feedback while being careful not to impose my own values or opinions. Only you hold the answers to your success. You are the expert. I serve as the tool that will assist for you to access the potential you desire. Your success is up to you. I consider it a privilege to be a part of your decision to improve your life.