You Didn't Have a Type.
You Had a Pattern
If you’ve ever found yourself asking
“why do I keep choosing this?”
start here.
You’ve probably told yourself you just keep choosing the wrong people.
But patterns don’t come from nowhere.
They come from what your body has learned to recognize as love.
Sign 1: It feels like chemistry… but your body is on edge
It starts fast.
There’s a pull you can’t explain.
A charge. A curiosity. A feeling like this means something.
And you tell yourself:
“this feels different”
But your body tells a different story.
You’re checking your phone more than you want to.
Reading into small shifts.
Waiting for the next message.
You feel it in your chest.
That subtle tightness. That anticipation.
You call it excitement.
But it’s not calm.
It’s not grounded.
It’s not safe.
It’s your nervous system recognizing something familiar…
and getting ready for what usually comes next.
Sign 2: When it’s actually healthy… you start to lose interest
When someone is consistent
clear
available
there’s no guessing.
No emotional rollercoaster.
No wondering where you stand.
And for a moment… it feels good.
But then something shifts.
You start to feel restless.
Disconnected.
Almost… bored.
You tell yourself:
“there’s just no spark”
“something’s missing”
But what’s actually missing…
is the intensity your body learned to associate with love.
So instead of leaning in…
you start pulling away.
Not because they’re wrong for you.
But because your body doesn’t know how to relax into something that’s finally safe.
Sign 3: You already know… and you override yourself anyway
You don’t miss the red flags.
You see them early.
You feel them in your body.
The inconsistency.
The emotional distance.
The moments that don’t quite sit right.
Nothing about this is confusing to you.
And still… you stay.
You tell yourself:
“Maybe I’m overthinking it”
“Maybe they just need time”
“Maybe I just need to be more patient”
So you soften your needs.
You silence your intuition.
You try to become easier to love.
Not because you don’t see what’s happening…
But because some part of you believes:
if you just love them the right way…
they’ll finally choose you back.
And that’s the part that keeps you in it.
Not the connection.
Not the potential.
But the quiet hope
that this time… it will turn out differently.
And eventually… you stop asking
“why do I keep choosing this?”
and start wondering
“why do I stay?”
If you saw yourself in any of this…
take a breath for a moment.
Because this isn’t about getting it wrong.
And it’s not because you don’t know better.
It’s because something in you learned
that love feels like this.
The waiting.
The wondering.
The emotional highs and lows.
The trying to get it right so you don’t lose it.
And your body held onto that
not as pain…
but as familiarity.
So when something feels similar
even if it’s inconsistent
even if it leaves you questioning yourself
your body leans toward it
because it recognizes it.
Not because it’s what you truly want now…
but because it’s what once felt like home.
And that’s the part most women never see.
They think they’re choosing the wrong people…
when really
their nervous system is choosing what it already understands.
But once you see it clearly
something begins to shift.
You stop chasing the feeling
and start noticing what it’s been costing you.
And from that place…
you don’t have to force different choices.
You begin to feel what’s actually right for you.
When you see it, you can’t unsee it.
And once you start to understand what’s been driving your patterns…
everything begins to make sense in a different way.
Not just who you’ve chosen…
but why it felt so hard to choose differently.
If you’re ready to see this more clearly…
I wrote something for you.
This is where things start to shift.
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