What can attachment theory teach you about yourself and your relationships? : Life Kit : NPR
2 years, 10 months ago

What can attachment theory teach you about yourself and your relationships? : Life Kit : NPR

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What's your attachment style? Take this quiz to find out Enlarge this image Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR Connie Hanzhang Jin/NPR How do you feel when your partner doesn't respond to your text right away? According to the field of attachment theory, each person has a unique attachment style that informs how you relate to intimacy: secure, anxious, avoidant and a small subset who are anxious-avoidant. This quiz, adapted from Amir Levine and Rachel Heller's bestselling book, Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find — and Keep — Love, will help you figure out your own attachment style. And though you may not have a choice in which attachment style you have, it's not just up to you to address it — other people have a role to play too.

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Do you struggle with anxious attachment? Relationship expert shares 5 ways to address it
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Do you struggle with anxious attachment? Relationship expert shares 5 ways to address it

Hindustan Times  

Do you struggle with anxious attachment? Relationship expert shares 5 ways to address it From moving out of harmful relationships to letting in the positive aspects of a relationship, here are a few ways. From moving out of harmful relationships to letting in the positive aspects of a relationship, here are a few ways to address anxious attachment. 1 / …

5 Signs Your Partner May Have An Avoidant Attachment Style
7 months, 3 weeks ago

5 Signs Your Partner May Have An Avoidant Attachment Style

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Psychologists have been studying attachment styles for decades, but in recent years, the concept has generated quite a bit of buzz on social media. “For instance, you can be in a securely attached relationship with one person, but in a different romantic relationship or friendship or familial relationship, you might embody one of the other styles.” Below …

Are you an anxious or avoidant dater? Here’s how to break those habits and level up
1 year ago

Are you an anxious or avoidant dater? Here’s how to break those habits and level up

LA Times  

In a TikTok that has been viewed nearly 1 million times, a woman explains that her husband’s approach to calming down after an argument is “by being in my skin, attached to me like a bug on a rug.” As someone with an avoidant attachment style, it’s the exact opposite of how she handles conflict, she says. “I know a …

Things that insecure people do in relationships
1 year, 1 month ago

Things that insecure people do in relationships

Hindustan Times  

Insecurity is a negative aspect in a relationship. However, sometimes people have insecure attachment style, and they shape their emotions in a relationship based on that attachment style. Relationship Coach Rebecca Ore shared insights related to insecurities in a relationship and noted down a few things that insecure people do in their relationships. Click to join Keeping score: Be it …

Ways by which people with anxious attachment seek safety
1 year, 3 months ago

Ways by which people with anxious attachment seek safety

Hindustan Times  

In relationships, people can have different styles of attachments. People with anxious attachment constantly seek reassurance and safety in a relationship, while people with avoidant attachment have a difficult time being vulnerable and expressing their emotions. Therapist Rikki Cloos addressed this and spoke of the ways by which a person with anxious attachment seeks safety in a relationship. Ways by …

Self-regulation tips for people with avoidant attachment style
1 year, 4 months ago

Self-regulation tips for people with avoidant attachment style

Hindustan Times  

When we are brought up in dysfunctional homes, we learn to live without getting attention, affection and care. People with an avoidant attachment style may struggle to balance their innate need for connection with the fear of being overwhelmed or hurt. The expert further shared a few self-regulation tips to follow for people with avoidant attachment style. Self-regulation tips for …

Signs of a dismissive avoidant
1 year, 5 months ago

Signs of a dismissive avoidant

Hindustan Times  

People have different attachment styles in a relationship. Be it anxious attachment or avoidant attachment, it can be challenging for every attachment to find their way into a healthy relationship. A relationship between a person with anxious attachment style and one with avoidant attachment style can be difficult to find a common ground. The benefit, however, of being able to …

Psychologist reveals 5 signs you have anxious attachment style
2 years ago

Psychologist reveals 5 signs you have anxious attachment style

Daily Mail  

A British psychologist has revealed five signs you may have an anxious attachment style in your relationships. A psychologist has revealed a list of signs you may have an anxious attachment style in a recent video on TikTok There are four attachment styles: anxious, avoidant, disorganised, and secure. Captioning her video, Dr Smith wrote: 'If some of the points in …

Warning signs and tips to handle anxious attachment in dating
2 years, 4 months ago

Warning signs and tips to handle anxious attachment in dating

Hindustan Times  

Anxious attachment style usually develops as a result of a parent or primary caretaker who was unpredictable in their connection, not emotionally attuned, and may have been neglected or abandoned. Warning signs and tips to handle anxious attachment in dating However, because of your childhood patterning around love, you probably tend to choose partners who validate what you already believe …

Relationship coach reveals why you're making the same mistakes with every partner
2 years, 8 months ago

Relationship coach reveals why you're making the same mistakes with every partner

Daily Mail  

If you're having trouble dating or feel like you keep making the same mistakes in romantic relationships, an expert has revealed how to break out of repeating relationship cycles. Ms Bezzu, 27, says many singles are usually 'unconsciously attracted' to things that feel familiar due to childhood conditioning and upbringing - such as behavioural traits observed by parents. Mindset Mentor …

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