You meet someone. There is chemistry. You feel excitement. You assume it means the relationship has potential.
But according to trauma-informed relationship coach Josh Wenner, that feeling might actually be your nervous system recognizing something familiar.
Not love. Not compatibility. But pain.
In a powerful conversation on The Elite League Podcast, Josh explains how childhood wounds and unresolved trauma quietly shape the partners we choose and the dynamics we repeat.
The patterns are often invisible. But once you see them, they become impossible to ignore.