Attachment styles are developed through early childhood experiences. “Your parents’ ability to be attuned to your needs and be emotionally safe caregivers greatly impacts your ability to build ...

Attachment style doesn’t just change over the arc of your life. It can also vary from moment to moment (people tend toward insecurity when they’re stressed) and across different relationships.

Therapists outline the four different attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, and fearful-avoidant—plus how to identify yours, cope, and change it.

Discover how your attachment style influences your communication patterns, from casual conversations to intense emotional exchanges.

The avoidant attachment style is best described as just that: avoidant. "Those demonstrating an avoidant attachment style appear very independent and struggle to build intimacy and connection in ...

The four attachment styles—first conceptualized by psychoanalyst John Bowlby and developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth in the 1950s and 60s—are rooted in the way children respond to the ...

The strategies we develop as children to maintain connection often carry over into adulthood, influencing how we behave during conflicts.

If you have an anxious attachment style, the first step is acknowledging it. Once you understand that you tend to be anxious in your relationships, you can work on overcoming some of that anxiety.

Most people retain a consistent attachment style starting in childhood, and they keep replicating that in their relationships, and then those relationships reinforce it. HR: The anxious/avoidant ...