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Is It Me? A Love Avoidant
In a previous article I discussed love attachment styles and relationship mindsets such as ‘Love addiction’. Now I’ll talk about one of the Four Attachment Styles in Love which was initially studied in the 1960s and 1970s for children/caregivers and then in the 1980s extended to adult relationships. It has now become commonplace to dive deeper in this area for those within the psychology field.
The Four Attachment Styles:
- Secure
- Anxious-Preoccupied
- Dismissive-Avoidant
- Fearful-Avoidant
There are so many working models and theories about how this unfolds, manifest, and influence in our relationships with ourselves and others.
The simplistic take is that these behaviors are mirrors of the ideas and beliefs we have formed about who we are and about our close relationships. I’ll talk about the style I am most familiar with, which is my own…
