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Anxious Attachment Triggers and Coping Behaviors
Anxious attachment usually stems from inconsistent or unpredictable connection in childhood. The result is a desire to keep someone close, and a fear of being abandoned.
Here are some triggers that people with anxious attachment often feel in the beginning stages and later on in relationships:
Avoidant Attachment Triggers and Withdrawal Strategies
There’s a myth that people with avoidant attachment don’t want to be in relationships. The truth is, most folks with avoidant adaptation do want to be in a relationship but push their partner away because of underlying fears and triggers which we will explore now.
Connect with love on Valentine’s Day
Whether you’re in a relationship or single, Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to recommit to loving yourself and expressing your love and care for others.
How to Learn from a Securely Attached Couple
Find attachment role models as an adult to become more secure
How to Find a Partner with Secure Attachment
If you’ve learned about attachment style and you’re in the process of looking for a match, chances are you’ve wondered how to avoid dating people with incompatible attachment styles and find someone with secure attachment.
Retrain Your Brain and Attachment System for a Secure Relationship
6 ways to increase your secure attachment
Why Do the Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Styles Attract Each Other?
You may have heard of the anxious avoidant trap, where two people with different attachment styles in a relationship get entangled in a dance of disconnection where one withdraws while the other pursues.
3 Steps to Manage Anxious Attachment When Your Date or Partner is Pulling Away
What to do if your date or partner is ignoring you, pulling away, and you’re scared you’ll lose them.
What It’s Like to Have a Partner Who Meets Your Needs
If you’ve never been in a relationship where you felt like your partner gave you what you wanted you might wonder what that’s like.
The #1 Reason You’re Not Attracting Your Ideal Partner
Why do we attract incompatible partners and what do we do about it?
How to Save Your Friendship — 15 Tips From Attachment Theory
You may have been hearing story after story lately of friend breakups and people ending long relationships. If it seems like you’ve been hearing more stories like this since the pandemic started, it’s not your imagination — people have been struggling with relationships of all kinds, and that includes friendships.
Learning from genetics to improve our relationships
The surprising link between genetics and attachment — and some hopeful news
How Your Attachment Style Can Impact Your Health
Researchers have discovered some interesting links between the style we developed as children and the health problems we have as adults
Helping Your Relationship Survive a Quarantine — 20 Tips From Attachment Theory
Anytime we experience stress from our environment, it can impact a romantic relationship. We turn to our relationships for comfort and stress relief, but can there be too much of a good thing? Yet some couples are handling this with more ease than others, and we can find some answers in attachment theory.
3 Steps to Relaxing While Lying in Bed: Stop Stressing About Love
Helpful exercises so you can get your Zs
Why it’s hard to ask for help (and what to do about it)
It’s more than just a desire for independence