Why the Ick Is Sabotaging Your Love Life #relationships #selfreflection

What does the ick feeling really mean? Well, if my understanding is correct, it's a slang word which describes a common experience generally had by women where they suddenly notice something about a romantic partner that makes them lose interest. Now, a lot of the conventional wisdom today tells you that that's your intuition telling you that there's a problem and it's time to move on. What I would like to share with you that I've seen up close how so many good relationships have been spoiled by giving too much credence to the ick. The ick is a real thing. Yeah. But it doesn't have to be the arbiter, the decider of what you do in life. Human beings are complex and we have all types of interesting triggers, sights and sounds and smells that give us this really intense visceral reaction that we're not even sure why we're having. But we're human beings and we have a brain. We're meant to be able to exercise some intellectual control over those responses. And what that means is not that you can will yourself to not have the feeling. You have the feeling, fine, you had it. But what it means is contextualizing it. Don't give up on something that can be very good because you had a particular trigger. Recognize it, acknowledge it, then put it in its context and move