Explore Attachment Styles in Relationships

Understanding attachment styles provides insight into how you and your partner connect emotionally, which can lead to healthier, more secure relationships.

How to Overcome Avoidant Attachment: 7 Helpful Tips

How to Overcome Avoidant Attachment: 7 Helpful Tips

Do you find yourself pulling away when things start to feel too close? Maybe you hesitate to open up, even …
Dylan Banks

By Dylan Banks

Marriage Counseling & Divorce| 11  min read

How to Heal an Avoidant Attachment Style: 7 Effective Steps

How to Heal an Avoidant Attachment Style: 7 Effective Steps

Pulling away when things get too close… shutting down instead of opening up… feeling safer alone than in the warmth …
Callen Winslow

By Callen Winslow

Parenting and Mental Health| 8  min read

7 Signs of Attachment Disturbance & Ways to Prevent It

7 Signs of Attachment Disturbance & Ways to Prevent It

Did you know that nearly 50% of people experience some form of attachment disturbance in their relationships? This surprising fact …
Noah Williams

Approved By Grady Shumway

Licensed Mental Health Counselor| 8  min read

5 Practical Tips for Anxious-Avoidant Couples

5 Practical Tips for Anxious-Avoidant Couples

Relationships can be complex and challenging, especially when partners have different attachment styles. Anxious-avoidant couples often face unique hurdles in …
Calantha Quinlan

Approved By Grady Shumway

Licensed Mental Health Counselor| 9  min read

10 Common Signs of Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment & Its Causes

10 Common Signs of Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment & Its Causes

Attachment styles are a way of understanding how we connect with others in our relationships and can often be related …
Rachael Pace

Approved By Maggie Martinez

Licensed Clinical Social Worker| 9  min read

What Is an Anxious-Avoidant Relationship & How to Make It Work

What Is an Anxious-Avoidant Relationship & How to Make It Work

Ever felt caught between wanting to be close to someone and pulling away at the same time? It is a …
Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Ashland, OH

By Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz

Licensed Clinical Social Worker| 14  min read

9 Telling Signs of Fearful Avoidant Attachment & How to Cope

9 Telling Signs of Fearful Avoidant Attachment & How to Cope

Imagine constantly craving a warm hug but flinching away when someone reaches out. This emotional tug-of-war is the reality for …
Marriage.com Editorial Team

By Marriage.com Editorial Team

Relationship & Marriage Advice| 11  min read

Attachment Issues: 10 Steps Healing Your Attachment Issues in Relationships

Attachment Issues: 10 Steps Healing Your Attachment Issues in Relationships

Did you know that you may be experiencing attachment issues in your relationship? If you are trying to get your …
Rachael Pace

Approved By Mert Şeker

Psychologist| 9  min read

Loving Someone With Avoidant Attachment Style : 10 ways

Loving Someone With Avoidant Attachment Style : 10 ways

It’s hard enough to love someone with any kind of attachment style, but when the person you love has an …
Rachael Pace

By Rachael Pace

Mental health, Parenting| 9  min read

17 Strong Signs an Avoidant Loves You

17 Strong Signs an Avoidant Loves You

You two are dating and having quite a good time, but your significant other often seems too mysterious. They come …
Rachael Pace

Approved By Maggie Martinez

Licensed Clinical Social Worker| 10  min read

Preoccupied Attachment Style: Beware the 15 Signs You Have It

Preoccupied Attachment Style: Beware the 15 Signs You Have It

Bowlby’s attachment theory  says that we are wired to develop attachments with our primary caretakers early in life. When our …
Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Ashland, OH

By Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz

Licensed Clinical Social Worker| 11  min read

25 Signs of Unhealthy Attachment in Relationships

25 Signs of Unhealthy Attachment in Relationships

From the very moment that a person is born, making attachments and the need for attachment is indispensable. Every relationship …
Marriage.com Editorial Team

By Marriage.com Editorial Team

Relationship & Marriage Advice| 10  min read

15 Signs of an Avoidant Partner and How to Deal With It

15 Signs of an Avoidant Partner and How to Deal With It

Childhood experiences form attachment styles that ultimately develop into future relationship behaviors. An attachment is a way in which individuals …
Marriage.com Editorial Team

Approved By Dionne Eleanor Reid

Coach| 9  min read

25 Evidence-based Ways of Communicating With an Avoidant Partner

25 Evidence-based Ways of Communicating With an Avoidant Partner

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness” — as Nietzsche so …
Sylvia Smith

Approved By Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz

Licensed Clinical Social Worker| 12  min read

What Is Disorganized Attachment in Relationships?

What Is Disorganized Attachment in Relationships?

Attachment styles refer to the patterns that people show when bonding with others, such as caretakers and significant others. While …
Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Ashland, OH

By Jennifer Jacobsen Schulz

Licensed Clinical Social Worker| 10  min read