You were into him. Things were going well. And then he put his hand on the small of your back and something in you just... no. Full body repulsion. You told yourself he was boring, or too keen, or something you couldn't quite name. You ghosted. You moved on. And it kept happening, with the kind ones, with the available ones, never with the ones who were half-ignoring you. In this episode, Lucy talks about the ick. Not the version where you explain it away as pickiness or protection or your body just knowing. The version where you start to wonder why the ick only shows up with the men who are actually good to you. You will understand what is really happening underneath the repulsion, the little girl underneath the protector, and why calm keeps getting mistaken for boring by a nervous system that learned to confuse chaos with love. You will also hear how to start telling the difference between the ick as fear and the ick as genuine signal, and why you cannot usually do that alone. This is one of Lucy's most personal episodes and one of the most practically useful. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.

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