This chapter explores the challenges of the avoidant attachment style within intimate relationships, focusing on the struggles faced by avoidant individuals in expressing vulnerability. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, communication, and the need for both partners to work on their attachment styles for healthier connections. Through personal anecdotes, the chapter highlights how understanding underlying fears can foster healing and deeper emotional connections.
The avoidantly attached deserved some airtime. Are avoidantly attached individuals avoiding love or avoiding vulnerability, rejection and potential discomfort? In this heavily requested episode, this week Louise & clinical psychologist Dr. Tari Mack dive into the Avoidant Attachment Style, shed light on the motivations behind the avoidantly attached and also explore how those with the avoidant attachment view OTHERS (including the anxiously attached!).
The pair discuss:
- What’s really going on behind the Avoidant Attachment Style? (exploring the true drivers)
- The difference between the Dismissive Avoidant and the Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style
- How seeking comfort & sharing feelings is often thought of as ‘useless’ for the Avoidantly Attached
- The ties between childhood & the avoidant attachment style
- The specific triggers and fears related to this attachment style; and
- Why withdrawal, shutting down, seeking space to regulate - often without communicating - can impact a relationship
The pair also discuss the top triggers and fears of the avoidant attachment style and why things often go wrong, quickly, after having sex.
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