Shadowing Practice: Why Do We Stay in Relationships That Hurt Us? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Most people who stay in relationships that are hurting them aren't confused about it.
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They know something is wrong.
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They've thought about leaving.
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They probably told themselves they were going to leave.
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And then they didn't.
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And from the outside, that looks like a choice that doesn't make sense.
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But the psychology behind it is a lot more complicated than just, why don't you leave?
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And understanding it says, something pretty uncomfortable about how human beings are wired.
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The first piece of this is attachment theory, which actually begins in the first few years of your life,
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long before any adult relationship enters the picture.
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When you're an infant, you form an attachment style based on how your caregivers respond to you.
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If your needs were met consistently, if comfort arrived when you needed it, if the people around you were reliable,
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you likely developed what psychologists call a secure attachment style.
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You learned that relationships are safe, that people can be trusted, that closeness isn't dangerous.
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But if your early environment was inconsistent, if comfort sometimes arrived and sometimes didn't,
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if the people around you were warm sometimes and distant or frightening other times, you developed an anxious or avoidant attachment style instead.
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And here's the key thing.
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Those patterns don't stay in childhood.
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They follow you directly into your adult relationships.
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Someone with an anxious attachment style tends to crave closeness intensely, fear abandonment deeply, and stay in relationships well past the point they should
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because the threat of being alone feels worse than the reality of being unhappy.
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And because a relationship that is unpredictable and inconsistent actually feels familiar to them in a way that a stable, healthy relationship sometimes doesn't.
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Then there's the sunk cost fallacy, which is one of the most well -documented cognitive biases in psychology
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and one of the most brutal when it shows up in relationships.
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The sunk cost fallacy is the tendency to keep investing in something that's clearly failing, driven entirely by how much you've already put in.
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You finish a movie you hate because you've already watched half of it.
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You stay at a job that's making you miserable because you've been there for years.
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The logic is, I've put too much in to walk away now, even when walking away would clearly be the better choice.
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In relationships, this gets enormously complicated because what you've invested goes far beyond time.
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It's memories, emotional labour, years of your life, plans you built together, a version of your future that involved this person.
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Leaving means losing all of that the relationship, the history, the identity you built inside it, and the belief that the time you gave meant something.
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So people stay because leaving feels like admitting that everything they invested was wasted.
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And that particular loss is one the brain resists very strongly.
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But probably the most misunderstood piece of all of this is trauma bonding, because it's the one that looks most irrational from the outside
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and makes the most sense once you understand the psychology underneath it.
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Trauma bonding happens in relationships with a specific pattern, cycles of tension, harm and then relief.
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The relationship isn't consistently bad.
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If it were, leaving would be easier.
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What makes it so hard to leave is the alternation.
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The periods where things are bad, followed by periods where things are good again, followed by bad again, followed by good.
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The apology after the fight, the kindness that follows the cruelty, the version of the person who shows up after the version who hurts you.
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Psychologists call this intermittent reinforcement and it is one of the most powerful forces in behavioral psychology.
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The brain doesn't bond most strongly to things that reward it consistently.
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It bonds most strongly to things that reward it unpredictably.
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A slot machine keeps people playing because it pays out sometimes.
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Randomly, unpredictably, just enough to keep you pulling the lever.
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Consistent rewards would actually make it less addictive.
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A relationship that is sometimes wonderful and sometimes terrible creates the same neurological pull.
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The good moments hit harder precisely because they're surrounded by bad ones.
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And the brain locks onto those good moments, keeps returning to them, keeps chasing them.
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Because the relief of the good after the bad is one of the most intense emotional experiences humans can have.
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This is why people in these relationships often describe being unable to leave even when they want to.
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The bond runs below logic, it's neurological.
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There's also the identity question, which doesn't get talked about enough.
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When you've been in a relationship for a long time, especially one that's involved control or emotional manipulation,
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your sense of who you are can become deeply intertwined with the relationship itself.
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You stop knowing clearly what you think, what you want, what you value outside of this dynamic,
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because over time those things were gradually defined for you by someone else.
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This is sometimes called the loss of authentic self, and it means that leaving can feel genuinely disorienting on top of being painful,
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because the relationship has become so much of how you understand yourself that you don't fully know who you'd be without it.
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Leaving would require rebuilding an identity that's been slowly eroded, sometimes over years.
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And that's a task that feels enormous when you're already exhausted.
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And then underneath all of this is something even more fundamental,
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which is that the brain experiences social rejection and loss using many of the same neural pathways as physical pain.
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Loneliness is not a metaphor.
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A threat of losing a relationship activates the same alarm systems as a physical threat to your safety.
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Which means that for someone with an anxious attachment style
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or someone who has been made to feel over time that they are lucky to be loved at all,
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the prospect of leaving can trigger a genuine fear response.
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Something that feels less like, this would be sad and closer to, I will not survive this.
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Rational arguments don't reach
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that place knowing something is bad for you doesn't automatically override a fear response that's running at that level.
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The people who ask, why don't you just leave, are usually asking from a place that has never experienced that particular fear at that particular intensity.
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And if they had, they'd understand why the answer isn't simple.
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So why do people stay in relationships that are bad for them?
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Because their attachment system was formed in an environment that may in consistency feel like home.
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Because leaving means surrendering everything they've already invested because the cycle of bad
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and good has created a bond that isn't about logic,
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because their identity has become so wrapped up in their relationship that leaving means not knowing who they are, and because the fear of loss is,
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for a lot of people, genuinely one of the most activating experiences the nervous system can produce.
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Understanding the psychology doesn't excuse the relationship, it just makes clear that the people inside these situations aren't failing to see something obvious.
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They are caught inside a set of mechanisms that are genuinely very difficult to override.
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Mechanisms that, in other contexts, are the same ones that make humans capable of deep loyalty, strong attachment and lasting love.
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The same wiring that makes us bond so deeply is the wiring that makes it so hard to let go.
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Subscribe if this explains something you couldn't quite put words to before.
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אוצר מילים והערות הגייה לשיעור הזה
שיעור הדיבור הזה ברמה C1 מבוסס על הסרטון “Why Do We Stay in Relationships That Hurt Us?”. המילים שחוזרות הכי הרבה: relationship, leaving, attachment, psychology, bond. בסרטון הזה יש 86 משפטים ו-1253 מילים לתרגול Shadowing. הדיבור נמשך 6:44. הדובר מדבר מהר, כ-186 מילים בדקה, אז צפו לצלילים מחוברים ומקוצרים. 83% מהמילים נמצאות בין 3,000 המילים הנפוצות ביותר באנגלית; כדאי ללמוד את השאר לפני שמתחילים.
אוצר מילים מרכזי בסרטון הזה
15 המילים המתקדמות ביותר בסרטון, עם ההגייה והמשמעות שלהן:
| מילה | הגייה | משמעות |
|---|---|---|
| closeness שם עצם | /ˈkloʊs.nəs/ | קִרְבָה |
| psychologist שם עצם | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | פְּסִיכוֹלוֹג, פסיכולוגית |
| abandonment שם עצם | /əˈbæn.d(ə)n.m(ə)nt/ | נטישה, הפקרה |
| addictive שם תואר | /əˈdɪktɪv/ | ממכר |
| lever שם עצם | /ˈliː.və/ | מָנוֹף |
| loneliness שם עצם | /ˈloʊnlinəs/ | בְּדִידוּת |
| unpredictable שם תואר | בלתי צפוי | |
| metaphor שם עצם | /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ | מֶטָפוֹרָה |
| cruelty שם עצם | /ˈkɹu(.ə)lti/ | אכזריות |
| tendency שם עצם | /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ | נטייה \ נְטִיָּה |
| infant שם עצם | /ˈɪn.fənt/ | עוֹלָל, תִּינוֹק |
| subscribe פועל | /səbˈskɹaɪb/ | נִמְנָה |
| authentic שם תואר | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | אוֹתֶנְטִי |
| apology שם עצם | /əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | הִתְנַצְּלוּת |
| miserable שם תואר | /ˈmɪz(ə)ɹəbəl/ | אֻמְלָל, מסכן |
דקדוק בסרטון הזה
המבנים שהדובר משתמש בהם הכי הרבה, עם המילים המדויקות מהסרטון:
| מבנה | בסרטון |
|---|---|
| משפטי תנאי (Conditional sentences) if + clause, will/would + verb — תנאי ותוצאה שלו | If it were, leaving would be · if they had, they'd understand |
| הווה מושלם (Present perfect) have/has + past participle — פעולה שקרתה בעבר ועדיין יש לה חשיבות או השפעה עכשיו | They've thought · you've already put · you've already watched |
| סביל (Passive voice) be + past participle — הדגש הוא על מה שקורה, לא על מי שעושה את הפעולה | are wired · were met · can be trusted |
| משפטי זיקה (Relative clauses) who / which + clause — מידע נוסף על אדם או דבר | people who stay · fallacy, which is · person who shows |
הגייה ששווה לשים לב אליה
הדובר משתמש ב-34 קיצורים וצורות מקוצרות, כמו doesn't, don't, you've. אמרו אותם בצורה הקצרה, כפי שאתם שומעים אותם.
- הצלילים של “th”: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/, authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
- הצלילים של “sh” ו-“zh”: alternation /ˈɔl.tɚˌneɪ.ʃən/, irrational /ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/, rejection /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/
- מילים ארוכות — שימו לב להטעמה: neurological /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, inconsistent /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənt/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, abandonment /əˈbæn.d(ə)n.m(ə)nt/, alternation /ˈɔl.tɚˌneɪ.ʃən/
צלילים שדוברי עברית מתקשים בהם:
- /w/ — שפתיים מעוגלות, לא /v/: intertwine /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/, pathway /ˈpæθˌweɪ/
- /æ/ — פתוח יותר מה-“אֶ” העברית, לא כמו “a” ב-“cup”: attachment /əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/, fallacy /ˈfæl.ə.si/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/, abandonment /əˈbæn.d(ə)n.m(ə)nt/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
- /r/ — הלשון לא נוגעת בשום מקום, לא ה-“ר” הגרונית: override /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/, caregiver /ˈkɛɹɡɪvɚ/, disorient /dɪsˈɔːɹi.ənt/, frighten /ˈfɹaɪ.tən/, intertwine /ˌɪntəɹˈtwaɪn/
איך לתרגל עם הסרטון הזה
- הקשיבו לכל הסרטון פעם אחת בלי לדבר, ורשמו את המילים שאתם לא מכירים.
- התחילו במהירות 0.75×, תרגלו Shadowing משפט אחר משפט, וחזרו למהירות רגילה כשזה מרגיש קל.
- הקליטו את עצמכם והשוו למקור, תוך תשומת לב למילים כמו closeness, psychologist, abandonment.
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