Posts tagged anxious avoidant dance
Breaking the Cycle: Steps to Create a Secure Connection in the Anxious-Avoidant Dance

Oh, the anxious-avoidant dance. This relationship often seems doomed to fail, but that isn’t always the case (although, sometimes, it is, and that’s okay too). While we know that no relationship is perfect (because no one is perfect), the anxious-avoidant partnership is a little more complicated.

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Insecure Attachment: The Surprising Similarities of Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Styles

Attachment Theory, developed by John Bowlby and expanded upon by Mary Ainsworth, has given so many of us the tools to understand how we form emotional bonds and attachments in our relationships. From our earliest days, we are seeking connection, safety, love, and to have our physical needs met. Depending on how those needs were received by our primary caregivers leads to how we formed attachments.

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