Understanding how they form and still affect you to this day is key to breaking negative relationship patterns.

Marie and her husband started seeing a couples therapist when the early years of parenthood put a strain on their marriage. Their two kids were 3 years and 4 months old, respectively, when COVID ...

It’s not always skills or experience that determine who gets ahead. Your childhood attachment style could be quietly blocking your next promotion. Forget bad interviews or office politics—the biggest ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. 6 min read Ever wonder why you feel the need to text your partner 20 times when they’re just out with ...

Learning how this type of attachment style develops is truly healing and can help you understand a lot about your ...

Attachment styles fall along a continuum of different aspects, typified by anxiety and avoidance. There are four main attachment styles measured along those dimensions: secure attachment, ...

So, you have been reading articles on attachment and realize that you have an insecure attachment style. Now what? People readily see the parts of their styles that are maladaptive and lead to ...

Attachment theory continues to provide an evolving and flexible framework, however inconclusive, in understanding how individuals seek and relate to one another. Attachment, originally proposed by ...

Are you anxious, avoidant or secure? What’s rarely discussed is whether people can switch from one camp to another. People wear their “anxious” labels as if they’re fixed for good, but that isn’t ...

The pop girls are not practicing secure relationship behaviors. And that’s according to science. A 2024 study from the Psychology of Music found that 86 percent of popular music depicts insecure ...

Forget bad interviews or office politics—the biggest threat to your next promotion might have formed in childhood, long before you started working. Psychologists warn that your attachment style can ...

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