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Attachment theory suggests that there are two attachment styles: secure and insecure. Find out how to identify yours and how it affects your relationships.

Secure attachment vs insecure attachment. 1. Per Julie, you have a secure attachment if you can be authentic about your feelings with your partner. However, if you hide your thoughts and feelings ...

A therapist explains the four attachment styles of attachment theory—secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized—and how they affect adult relationships.

A secure attachment style is what most people strive for and the most popular type. Research shows that around 66% of the population has a secure attachment style.

RELATED: 4 Ways To Change An Avoidant Attachment Style — For The Sake Of Your Relationships 3. People who are securely attached read people well. A person with a secure attachment style doesn't ...

Instead, attachment styles occur along a continuum, and people may be "secure" in some types of relationships and "insecure" in others. Related: Was Freud right about anything?

3. Under the secure attachment style, Julie listed the ability to trust oneself and others (when it's safe). However, if it is hard for you to trust yourself and others, then you have an insecure ...

They're a popular topic of conversation — in online spaces, especially — so you may be familiar with terms like "secure" and "insecure" attachment, or "anxious" and "avoidant" attachment.