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Anxious Attachment Can Feel Like Love Addiction
Love is probably the most discussed emotion in the realm of human feelings. We know it when we feel it - we feel the void when it is absent. We may not be able to easily define it, but we...
Category: Attachment
What Is Attachment: How Human Behavior Forms
“Attachment” is a term meant to describe the way that we connect with each other in the context of emotional safety and trust. When Attachment Theory was developed (Bowlby and Ainsworth), the concept was given that early in life, the...
What Is Love Addiction?
Why am I like this? At a pivotal moment in my life, I received the diagnosis that I was a “love addict.” The weight of that term impacted me deeply. What did it mean? How abnormal IS love addiction? Would...
The Ambivalent In Relationship – Anxiety and Avoidance
When it comes to unhealthy relationships, the most common types of people are: those who desperately cling on out of unmet longing from childhood wounds (the Anxious), and those who avoid connection from being engulfed or feeling unsafe from childhood...
What Is Attachment Dysregulation? (Formerly Known As Love Addiction)
If you’ve ever felt like the world was coming to an end, depressed or in despair when you’ve let go of a relationship, then you may have experienced withdrawal, or what the Behavioral Health industry has been calling “Love Addiction.”...
Disorganized Attachment: Characteristics & Effects
As a species, humans are “hardwired” to seek out and form relationships. It is our most basic instinct, a profound need, an existential imperative that defines us and sets up the foundation upon which we build our lives. In fact,...
Divorce & Attachment Styles: How It Affects Them
Your attachment style is formed at an early age and it’s mostly shaped by your parents and your relationship with them. Love, annoyance, compassion, avoidance, dedication, care, neglect, and anything in between contributes significantly to the substance of the attachments...
How To Develop A Healthy Attachment Style
Breaking away from your habits is rarely an easy undertaking. If you’ve ever tried to give up a pattern of behavior, you know that it takes much more than just making a decision. The same may apply to a cycle...
Why We Crave Affection
Do you feel like you just can't have enough affection? Do you feel like you're starving for physical touch? Do you ask yourself: "Why do I crave love so much"? If you do, know that it is entirely natural. In...
Insecure Anxious Attachment
Struggling with jealousy, feeling insecure, and feeling nervous about being separated from your partner are all possible signs of anxious attachment. Rooted in childhood fear of abandonment and feelings of being underappreciated, anxious attachment can affect your adult relationships in...