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What secure attachment in adults looks like in relationships, how it relates to trust, and how it is involved in healthy relationships.

Part Two of a story illustrating and analysing how anxious attachment feels in a relationship.

An illustrative story of how an anxiously attached person might experience relationships. The first companion post to the Avoidant Attachment: What's Really Going On Inside series.

Imagine it’s your birth day today, the very first day you arrive on the outside. There’s a person or two to take you home and whether they realise it (or are ready to) or not, they’re about to start shaping the adult you become. Their job on top of that, is to keep you alive until you’re old enough to do it yourself. Your job, as a brand new being, is to do the things that encourage the people to meet your needs. Early on, you’re running on pure instinct. You make the noise

Can relationships work when one person has an anxious attachment style and the other has an avoidant attachment style?

Understand two of the most common reasons people with anxious and avoidant attachment styles attract one another.

Part two of a two part story and clinical analysis illustrating the internal experience of someone who is avoidantly attached in a relationship.

An illustrative story of what's going on inside for an avoidantly attached person in a relatonship.

Learn about the common childhood experiences that can create an avoidant attachment style.

Perhaps your relationship started off so promising. When you were first dating, you were excited. Your new person seemed so into you. It was fun, kinda hot, probably. How could this person possibly be single? Sure, maybe you'd heard about their heartbreaker reputation. Or their ex was crazy. Or they were absolutely locked into their study or career so of course they didn't have time for a serious relationship. And of course, they hadn't met you yet. Well, maybe there were a f

Learn about the origins of the four attachment styles from attachment theory and how you can recognise them in relationships.