How romantic attraction works: Sam's irresistibly drawn to a guy despite all the red flags

Ever wondered why you're magnetically drawn to certain people? In this episode, we explore the psychology of attraction through the lens of Carl Jung's shadow work. Host Shagun Chopra reveals how the qualities we find most attractive in others are often the suppressed parts of ourselves trying to emerge, and why that initial "high" eventually fades. Through an intimate conversation with Sam, a successful attorney who reconnected with her free-spirited high school boyfriend 20 years later, we uncover how romantic attraction serves as a mirror for our own unexpressed desires. Sam shares how she went from being obsessively responsible and achievement-oriented to recognizing that her attraction to Adam's unconventional, unbound lifestyle was actually her own soul craving freedom. Learn the difference between projection-based attraction and persona-st ...