How to Stop Attracting Mr/Ms Wrong

When clients book a ‘manifesting love’ with me, it’s often because they really want to find their ideal match but keep attracting Mr/Ms Wrong over and over again and don’t know why it keeps happening.

The work that we do together invariably focuses on the client’s default patterns of attraction. A client may tell me that they’re wanting a relationship that is X, Y and Z, but I tend to uncover some pretty unconscious patterns of attraction in these readings which show that the client is attracting the total opposite of what they say they want.

So this article focuses on unconscious patterns of attraction in relationships, how you can recognize them and how you can clear them to bring in the new. Really all it takes is a genuine desire to create something different, a good look at your past and the conviction that you’re worthy of your desires.

Looking to your past for the answers

It’s kind of a common scenario isn’t it? People who attract the same kind of partner again and again. I used to be a pro at attracting men who were absolutely terrified of long-term relationships. I have a friend who attracts a lot of men who are self-destructive or self-sabotaging in some significant aspect of their lives. It seems uncanny how the same kind of partner or potential partner shows up again and again. It’s not a coincidence – there is a reason for it.

If it seems you’re unable to attract the relationship you want, you may have an old relationship story that no longer suits you, which needs clearing to make way for the new. Your old relationship story consists of one or more default patterns of attraction in relationships (and I’m not talking about sexual attraction, I’m talking about the law of attraction). A default pattern of attraction means that you attract a certain undesirable trait/qualities (or set of traits) over and over, without being conscious of it.

Your default patterns of attraction can have their origins in previous relationships or they can be learned from your parents, family or from society. And because like attracts like, once you start putting energy behind that default pattern of attraction (like when people complain that they only ever seem to attract the same types ), it takes root, becomes reinforced and this makes it harder to break out of.

Becoming conscious of your own old relationship story

A really simple way to become conscious of your patterns of attraction in relationships is to list all your past relationships- however short or long -and see what the common trait(s) are. You could also include potential partners.

I’m talking about the common traits which caused the end of the relationship or some conflict in the relationship. It may be a trait in either you or in your previous partner. You may see more than one common trait. For example, you may see among all your partners that they lacked commitment to you. You could see the pattern that you made projects of your partners and tried to change them. It could be that you mostly dated people who were controlling.

Once you identify what you are attracting that you no longer want, you can clear it. You could tell yourself that you don’t need to take ownership of what you have attracted into your life in the past. However, the more responsibility you can take for your past relationships, the more you can learn from them.

Why we must learn from past relationships in order to move on from them

The universe has an uncanny way of matching us up with the right person who can show us where there is an imbalance in our way of being. For example, the angry person often ends up with the scaredy cat who can’t stand up to them. The abuser ends up with the abusee. We attract people who teach us a lesson we need to learn. Sometimes those lessons are the most painful. If you’re the type who attracts angry people, ask yourself why this is. It could be that you need to get some boundaries and start respecting yourself. It could be that you grew up around angry people and never learned how to deal with them. And the universe is sending you another chance. If you are always attracting partners who need your help and rely on you too much, maybe it’s a call for you to heal your desire to change and make projects of other people. If your past partners have been too controlling, perhaps you could address what in you likes to be controlled.

Recognizing the lessons from our past is a healing process in itself. I learned in my cord-cutting training that you cannot cut an energetic cord to a previous partner until you know what the toxic patterns are contained within the cord and where they came from in the first place. I believe it’s the same with our experiences. If you don’t learn the lessons from your past relationships and see what they were showing you, life will continue to hit you over the head with the same experiences until you do.

The other interesting pattern in our relationships is that we not only attract people who are our polar opposite to teach us a lesson about the way we are and to find balance again – like the abuser attracting the abusee and so forth, we also tend to attract people who are like us (as in like attracts like).

So how does that work, considering what I’ve said above? It seems contradictory but both of those patterns can co-exist in relationships. If you attract angry, non-committal people, there will be a frequency in your energy field which resonates with anger, or lack of commitment. The people around us are also reflections of us, the good and the bad. If you’re always dissatisfied with less than perfect partners, then the real issue is that you are not entirely accepting of yourself. If you’re familiar with Byron Katie’s ‘the work’, you’ll know that she gets people to ‘turn it around’. If someone is complaining about their children being disrespectful, then she gets them to turn it around and see where they could be behaving in a disrespectful way towards their children. Once their mind has been opened to the possibility, the person doing the work can always see a reflection of themselves in the people around them and it’s always a significant discovery for them which releases something.

Bring in the new

If you’re letting go of what you don’t want – begin to focus on what you do want. Make a new, CONSCIOUS list of desirable traits that you’re seeking in a partner (a list of non-negotiables). Some examples are: must have a sense of humour, must be financially solvent, kindness, willingness to commit, etc

Get really clear on what you want. If you’ve experienced many unsatisfactory relationships, you probably already have an idea of what you do want, because you have experienced the opposite and that helps you to get clear on what you do want.

Then the next thing to do is to examine whether you’re a vibrational match for what you want. You may have been a vibrational match for an angry partner, or an abusive one, or a non-committal one, depending on what your default pattern(s) of attraction were, but how do you know if you’re a vibrational match to a kind, loving partner?

Look at your list of non-negotiables. Ask yourself whether you would date yourself. Do you have the traits on your list? For example, do you want a partner who is independent and has a social life when you don’t have one? Are you asking for a financially solvent partner when you’re broke?

It’s interesting, a few months back I read for a client who was struggling in her finances. She was trying to manifest a new partner and thought it would be nice to have a wealthy partner to help her in her finances. And you know what? She got a broke guy. He also wanted to manifest a wealthy partner, and she showed up. Like attracts Like. If you’re asking for too many things that you don’t have, then you may be asking someone to rescue you.

If there are some things in your list which you can’t provide, then commit to working on these as part of your process of attracting the ideal mate. Finding your ideal partner really does start from within. And it’s not about becoming perfect so that you can attract a perfect mate, it’s about becoming conscious of and eradicating the parts of you which attract undesirable traits by default. Once you change from inside, the rest of the world shifts in response to the new you, including the relationships which come your way.