Dr. Marisa G. Franco | How to Make Adult Friends (and Why They Matter)
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Relationships and Attachment Theory
Our personalities are fundamentally a reflection of our experiences of connection or lack thereof. Those that have experienced healthy connection go into their relationships with these positive set of assumptions about others to facilitate continued connection. The securely attached more likely to initiate relationships and maintain them less likely to dissolve relationships better at bringing up conflict in ways that are not attacking or blaming someone else. Avoidantly attached people tend to ignore all of their needs and try to fulfill someone else's so they get into these really unhealthy relationships. These two opposite attachment styles that both kind of fear each other tend to end up be friends with each other being in relationships with each other. We should not shame ourselves for our attachment because it is adaptive in an
