Avoiding commitment: For an avoidant friend, the idea of being "locked in" or feeling obligated can trigger their discomfort ...

Understanding your relationship history and your attachment adaptations, along with other healing modalities, can help you ...

Content about attachment styles is everywhere at the moment. It’s meant to help you understand how you connect with other people, but for many people, it ends up doing the opposite. Instead of clarity ...

There are four attachment styles: secure, ambivalent, avoidant, and disorganized. They are formed in childhood and grow stronger as we progress through life, eventually affecting how you see and ...

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 ...

A chimpanzee mother (Xela) nursing her offspring (Xort). Researchers have for the first time identified distinct mother-offspring attachment types in wild chimpanzees. Have you ever wondered how your ...

Attachment styles and their roles in our relationships have become widely discussed in psychological research and personal growth journeys. This growing interest makes perfect sense: How we attach to ...

You know when you’re dating someone new, and things are going well? You’re texting back and forth, sharing little moments from your day, and then suddenly… silence. You know it’s because they’re busy, ...

Attachment represents one of the most fundamental psychological frameworks influencing human relationships throughout the lifespan. This powerful behavioral system begins forming during infancy ...