Attachment Theory and Singlehood

attachment theory is a theory to explain why some people are more comfortable getting close to others than other people are. The two dimensions on which we typically think of differences in people about how they relate to others are these two variables that we call anxious attachment and avoidant attachment. So single anxiously attached people are relatively low in their overall life satisfaction so they feel like they really need a relationship. Avoidantly attached people are not particularly unhappy about being single but they do seem to be lower in overall life satisfaction. It's going to help a lot to have close relationships with your family and with your friends and avoidantly attached people struggle in those kinds of domains because they keep distance there.