An anxious-avoidant relationship creates a painful push-and-pull dynamic where one partner craves closeness while the other ...

While the events that lead to love, marriage, affairs and divorce can often feel arbitrary, for psychologists there is a definitive science behind why some relationships work and some just don’t. In ...

Attachment styles fall along a continuum of different aspects, typified by anxiety and avoidance. There are four main attachment styles measured along those dimensions: secure attachment, ...

We’ve all been there: Things start exciting—texts that make your heart race, chemistry that feels electric, and conversations that flow effortlessly. But then, without warning, something shifts. The ...

If you follow pop psychology, you’ll know these terms as part of attachment theory. It’s a simple, if reductive idea, on how people “attach” to partners — do they do it anxiously fearing abandonment, ...

Are you anxious, avoidant or secure? What’s rarely discussed is whether people can switch from one camp to another. People wear their “anxious” labels as if they’re fixed for good, but that isn’t ...