Why do I feel lonely in my relationships? AI Relationships and the Fear of Being Left

You might have started small. A question you weren't ready to ask a friend. Something you needed to process at 11pm when calling someone felt like too much. A thought you were a little embarrassed about and needed to say somewhere without consequence. It felt fine. Maybe even helpful. But there is something happening underneath that that is worth paying attention to before it quietly costs you more than you realise. In this episode, Lucy talks about why so many of us have started turning to AI for emotional support, why it feels safer than turning to the people in our lives, and what we are actually losing in making that swap. This is not an episode about AI being bad or about the man on Esther Perel's podcast who fell in love with a chatbot, though that is in here too. It is an episode about what real intimacy actually requires and why the thing that makes AI feel so relieving, the total absence of risk, is precisely the thing that makes it useless for the kind of healing that will actually change your life. You will hear why real connection is built not in the absence of fear but in the presence of it. Why the moment you say the scary thing to a real person and are not rejected is the moment something genuinely shifts. And why for high-achieving women in particular, having a place to quietly offload the parts of yourself you are not performing, without ever having to let a real person see them, might be keeping you more stuck and more lonely than you know. Find out more at www.lucymaeve.com.→ Come say hi on Instagram: @lucy__maeve https://offers.lucymaeve.com/the-liberated-life-retreat-2026/