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How Attachment Sets You Up for Future Trauma
Attachment is so important because it determines the degree to which you will be able to regulate your own affect. In other words, attachment sets you up for how you experience future trauma. A baby strives to tune into his parents, but a baby has no ability to judge whether his parents are healthy or benevolent. And so a child in need will gravitate toward the child's mother's face and run to her,. The closer that a potential mate matches what you have known, what you were familiar with, the more entranced you will be.