Hi Rich,

I totally feel you in this, I can feel the same tendency in me when I'm around people with stronger/more catalytic or dominant energy; people who are more defined or settled within themselves and communicate their needs more clearly. I live with a partner right now who has a strong energy like that and I can easily get lost in it when he is around me. Last example is when I was meditating yesterday morning and he came in the room and I felt myself tightening in my sacrum and "drawn out" of myself and the moment, but could clearly feel that I am the one with weak energetic bounderies and shifting almost all of my attention towards him in that moment. It's very clear to me that it's something that I do. His catalytic/more masculine energy triggers me I believe because it wants to come alive in me, so I try to work to relax in it instead of letting myself be drawn out or avoiding it, which I was unconsciously doing for a while. Taking space for myself is definitely important (I am lucky to have a lot of space and seperate bedrooms), but not to avoid or oppose it as much as I was doing. It's a very challenging dynamic for sure!

Hannah 🌸