The Genetic Component of Attachment

Can somebody be born with anxious attachment just sort of based on their personality, or is it environmental? Yeah, this is a great question. Your attachment can fundamentally change over time. Some research finds that it's more likely to change than stay the same after you. And I think knowing about our attachment style isn't deterministic because we had doomed relationships in the past. It allows us to instead say, nobody can be trusted, you know, everybody's going to abandon me.

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