ab 12 • Audiobook • 01:13:20 • September 2026

Someone gets close, and something in you quietly backs up. You go vague, you find a flaw, you go cold, or you suddenly have far too much to do. Afterwards you cannot fully explain it, and neither can the person left standing there. This five-hour listen puts words to that reflex. It introduces the Distance Dial, an original framework with four named exits: the Fade, the Fault-Find, the Freeze and the Flight-Into-Busy. Every chapter opens with an everyday scene you will recognise, explains in plain language what attachment research actually knows about avoidant attachment, and ends with one script or reframe you can use this week. Later chapters map how the dial plays out with an anxious partner, another avoidant, or a secure one, so you can see your pattern instead of being judged for it. You keep your independence and stop losing the people you care about. Press play and start with the exit you used last.