Therapists outline the four different attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized—plus how to identify ...
Signs of anxious attachment style include being clingy, fearing separation, and needing unnecessary reassurance from a loved one.
Do you know your attachment style? Relationship and dating expert Kelly Marie says it could explain a lot of behaviors when ...
Do you find yourself hyperfixating on whether your partner is upset with you? Do you feel as though you're constantly nagging at your significant other in search of affection? Or maybe you're the ...
If you follow pop psychology, you’ll know these terms as part of attachment theory. It’s a simple, if reductive idea, on how people “attach” to partners — do they do it anxiously fearing abandonment, ...
New research shows that even mild early-life adversity can disrupt development, attachment, and stress regulation in young ...
Learning how this type of attachment style develops is truly healing and can help you understand a lot about your ...
A study of 512 couples finds that touch aversion in relationships stems primarily from avoidant attachment patterns, not ...
People are always talking about power in relationships. People usually agree that the person who does the chasing has less of it, but lately, I’m not so sure. There are many different ways to assume ...
A disorganized attachment style is characterized by a deep desire for intimacy coupled with a history of self-sabotaging relationships.
I once spent months obsessing over the perfect text messages to someone. He was movie-star handsome, ridiculously smart, and ...