Things they don’t tell you when you’re young: understanding yourself, and why you do the things you do, isn’t an easy or straightforward journey. Luckily, some smart people have dedicated their lives ...

How you interact with people as an adult can depend on the important relationships you had when you were young. If you didn’t get the support, care, love, and comfort you needed during childhood, you ...

Attachment styles—the way we connect with other people—are generally developed as infants, and further refined as children, adolescents, and adults. Alongside anxious and avoidant attachment, ...

A disorganized attachment has a combination of anxious attachment and avoidant attachment styles. If you have a disorganized attachment style, you may have a hard time trusting people. You may also ...

Anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment styles tend to be rooted in a person's childhood, but they can cause problems once you're an adult. Westend61 via Getty Images Nicole Phillip, a ...

Everyone wants to have happy healthy relationships. We want them so badly, in fact, that many of us become obsessed with how to do them “right.” In recent years, attachment theory has become a useful ...

Our relationships with our parents lay the foundation for our future connections with others, shaping the way we navigate emotional bonds well into adulthood. Attachment expert, author, and therapist ...

Things they don’t tell you when you’re young: understanding yourself, and why you do the things you do, isn’t an easy or straightforward journey. Luckily, some smart people have dedicated their lives ...