Is There a Need to Connect With Others?

With some very few exceptions, I think it's present in all of us. And if you're anxiously attached, you really feel the need to have someone else there or avoid it. We come up with these strategies when we're young, which are decent strategies by one interpretation. But as we evolve, as we get older, they become self-defeating or they don't service anymore. The anxious attachment style being too clingy or codependent, for example. So we have these needs. Everyone is in the middle of their own life story. And your life story is made up by what you say yes to, what you say no to. Those yeses and noes are

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