Changing Your Attachment Style

• People with this style are comfortable showing interest and affection. 
• They are comfortable being alone and independent.
• They can correctly prioritize their relationships.
• They are able to draw clear boundaries and stick with them.

50% of the population i...

• They are also known as the "fearful type."
• They are afraid of intimacy and commitment, and they are distrustful.
• They spend much of their time alone and miserable, or in dysfunctional relationships.
• They often suffer from emotional problems in other areas of their lif...

Our attachment styles are influenced by how we related to our parents as infants and set the pattern for how we perceive relationships as we mature.

As we get older, we continue to build on this pattern when we form relationships with our peers and other people.

Attachment theory is an area of psychology that describes the nature of emotional attachment between people, starting with your parents. The quality of how well you were cared for will then influence the nature of your relationships later in life.

There are four attachment strategies: secur...

Different attachment types tend to configure themselves into relationships in predictable ways.

• Secure types can handle both anxious and avoidant types in a relationship.
• Anxious and avoidants regularly end up in relationships with one another and less frequent wi...

• They are often nervous and stressed about their relationships.
• They need constant reassurance and affection from their partners.
• They have trouble being alone or single.
• They are often in unhealthy or abusive relationships.
• They have trouble trusting people.

Anxious types can work on developing themselves, creating healthy boundaries and fostering a healthy self-image.

Avoidant types can work on opening themselves up to others and share more about themselves.