Attachment and Friendship: Why Some People Can’t Keep Friends
It’s one of the lonelier realizations a person can have: looking back over the years and noticing that friendships that felt important have quietly disappeared,...
Read Article →Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
It’s one of the lonelier realizations a person can have: looking back over the years and noticing that friendships that felt important have quietly disappeared,...
Read Article →Understanding your attachment style is one thing. Understanding how it got there is another , and often the more useful piece. When people see the...
Read Article →When people first encounter attachment theory, one of the most common reactions is a kind of painful recognition , an “oh, that’s what that is”...
Read Article →Two people are handed identical financial situations: same income, same expenses, same starting point. One sleeps fine. The other lies awake tracking every dollar, overwhelmed...
Read Article →You probably don’t think about your childhood when you’re preparing for a performance review. But the person sitting across from your manager, monitoring every microexpression...
Read Article →Notice what happens in your body when you reach for your phone and it’s not where you expected it to be. A small spike of...
Read Article →Ask someone why they game so much, and the honest answer is rarely about the games themselves. It’s about what the games provide. A world...
Read Article →If you’ve lived most of your life with anxious or avoidant attachment, descriptions of “secure attachment” can feel abstract at best and irritating at worst....
Read Article →Think about what a good parent does when a child falls and scrapes their knee. They come close. They acknowledge that it hurts. They don’t...
Read Article →We talk about romantic attachment a lot, and understandably. Romantic partnerships tend to activate the deepest attachment material, bring the strongest longing, and, when they...
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