“Any gap in contact is the beginning of the end.” A nervous system trained on inconsistency reads silence as evidence and calls the panic intuition.
WIPE_SCRIPTS
The Science of Attachment Distortions: Why Anxious Attachment Turns Ordinary Silences into Abandonment Evidence
13 scripts this research explains — "He hasn't texted back in two hours — he must be done with me." "She seemed off today; she's probably losing interest."
“I know what they're thinking, so I don't need to ask.” Mind reading replaces one conversation with a hundred imagined ones — and you lose every imagined one.
The Mind-Reader Script
“One failure predicts all futures.” A single data point gets promoted to a law of nature about you.