Why do I keep attracting men who pull away
Sunday was easy. On Monday he answers in one word, and you reread your last message looking for what made him step back.
So you get easy. You stop asking where this is going, you laugh off the silences, you say “no worries” with a knot in your stomach. He relaxes a little, you never quite do, and your evenings go to measuring what you let him see. It makes my chest tight, all the care you put into it.
It might not be that you attract them. The one who steps back is the one you work hardest for, so he's the one you remember, the one who takes up your head. And every “no worries” is a want you keep to yourself, until he only knows the version of you who asks for nothing. Does that sound familiar?