#4: 5 Traits of the Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style
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Dismissive Avoidants Use Distance to Protect Their Relationships
What threatens the dismissive avoidant is closeness, intimacy and being depended on. However they're feeling threatened, they will use distance to get themselves back to safety. It can come across as really unkind or hurtful or cold and callous. But when we don't place ourselves at the centre of the story, then we are much more able to respond in a measured way.
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