LET’S TALK ATTACHMENTS How Attachment Styles Cope With Relationship Anxiety (Activating & Deactivating Strategies)
Oct 8, 2022
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Attachment Anxiety Is Universal
- All attachment styles experience relationship anxiety since our brain is wired for attachment.
- Anxiety arises when the connection to an attachment figure feels threatened or disconnected.
Activating vs. Deactivating Strategies
- Activating strategies seek closeness to soothe anxiety, seen in anxious and fearful avoidant attachments.
- Deactivating strategies create distance for safety, typical of dismissive and fearful avoidant attachments.
Avoidance Hides Equally Intense Anxiety
- Avoidant attachment styles experience just as much anxiety as anxious styles but express it differently through withdrawal.
- Avoidance is not healthier; it's simply a different coping expression of the same anxiety.