Compulsive Relationship Hyperanalysis as Uncertainty-Resolution Wrong Attractor: The Meaning-Mining Architecture, Ambiguity-Amplification Basin, and the Return to Trusting Attentiveness

Compulsive relationship hyperanalysis — the obsessive pattern of mining every interaction, message, silence, and relational signal for hidden meaning in the service of resolving relational uncertainty — is here formally reconceptualized as a wrong attractor W_RHA in the landscape of trusting attentiveness. The healthy ground state S^0 is defined as trusting attentiveness: the capacity to be present with relational experience without compulsively subjecting every detail to interpretive analysis — allowing genuine connection, ambiguity, and uncertainty to coexist with felt security.

W_RHA is rigorously distinguished from healthy relational attentiveness, appropriate concern about genuinely ambiguous signals, constructive processing of relational difficulties, and adaptive uncertainty management. Three interlocking mechanisms maintain the basin: meaning-mining compulsion (the hyperanalyzer converts every relational datum into a clue to be decoded — text response times, word choices, tone shifts, facial microexpressions — generating endless interpretive work; D(ξ) is generated by relational ambiguity), the ambiguity amplification loop (each round of analysis generates new ambiguities faster than it resolves old ones, producing an ever-expanding field of relational uncertainty requiring more analysis), and connection-analysis substitution (time and energy spent analyzing replaces time spent in actual relational presence — the hyperanalyzer is perpetually thinking about the relationship rather than being in it).

The Clarity Paradox is central: compulsive relationship hyperanalysis reliably produces the relational uncertainty it is organized to resolve — the ceaseless analysis generates interpretive noise, creates relational distance, and progressively destroys the felt security that would make genuine clarity available. Nine formal propositions characterize the trusting attentiveness ground state, the meaning-mining wrong attractor, the three maintenance mechanisms, the clarity paradox, developmental roots in anxious attachment and unpredictable caregiving environments, and return paths through EFT, mentalizing approaches, mindfulness-based relational interventions, and graduated uncertainty tolerance.