The Attachment Blog | Insights About Dating & Relationships (2025)

Giving Up Ghosting: How to Avoid Ghosting Others

27 Jan 2023

In the age of technology, ghosting is becoming more frequent. But it is a painful and confusing experience for anyone on the receiving end.Find out how to avoid ghosting others.

Tips for Healthy Emotion Regulation During Breakups

6 Jan 2023

Our ability to healthily regulate emotions during breakups is affected by our attachment styles. But there are steps you can take to cope better during this difficult time.

2 Jan 2023

Emotional intelligence is a useful tool for successfully navigating relationships. Discover how your attachment style impacts emotional intelligence.

Attracting a Partner With a Secure Attachment Style

26 Dec 2022

Attracting a secure partner, even if you have an insecure attachment style, is entirely possible. It just helps to know the signs of secure attachment and understanding how to work towards more secure attachment in your own life first.

Setting Limits: Boundaries and Attachment Styles

20 Dec 2022

Our ability to understand and implement boundaries is affected by our attachment styles. This article covers four key steps to managing boundaries.

Forming a Secure Attachment to Your Siblings

16 Dec 2022

Insecure attachment can affect the bond we form with our siblings. But it's possible to form a secure sibling attachment at any stage of life - discover how!

Attachment and Music: What Your Favorite Lyrics Say About Your Attachment Style

13 Dec 2022

Our favorite song lyrics have an impact on our ability to feel more secure in relationships. Find out how to make music and lyrics tools for processing attachment insecurity.

How to Be a Secure Base for Your Loved One

11 Dec 2022

Acting as a secure base for a loved one with an insecure attachment style can help them feel less anxious in general, and also more secure in your presence - strengthening the bond in your relationship.

Earned Secure Attachment: Transforming Your Insecure Attachment Style

8 Dec 2022

An insecure attachment style isn't necessarily a life sentence. Find out how to achieve earned secure attachment.

How to Communicate With an Avoidant Partner

1 Dec 2022

Avoidant attachment can cause a breakdown in communication. These tips can help strengthen the bond in your relationship with an avoidant partner.

The Love Hormone: Oxytocin and Attachment

30 Nov 2022

Our levels of oxytocin (the love hormone) are linked to our attachment styles. Find out how!

Transgenerational Trauma: The Cycles of Insecure Attachment

26 Nov 2022

Insecure attachment can be passed on through our genes. Discover how transgenerational trauma affects our relationships and self perceptions.

Adoption and Attachment: Forming a Secure Bond With Your Adopted Child

12 Nov 2022

Adoption gives children a second chance. Find out how adoption impacts attachment and what adoptive caregivers can do to help their child forge a secure bond.

Attachment Styles and Stress Responses

4 Nov 2022

Discover the link between attachment theory and eating disorders. Learn how insecure attachment styles might contribute to eating disorders.

The Scare Factor: How Your Attachment Style Influences Your Fears

28 Oct 2022

Are you the type of person that likes to watch a horror movie on your own, enjoying the feeling of fear that tugs at your gut? Did you spend your childhood telling ghost stories or daring your friends to knock at the door of the local “haunted” house? If you did, you’re most certainly not […]

6 Signs Your Attachment Style Is Affecting Your Peace of Mind

12 Oct 2022

From time to time, you may find that you struggle more than usual to achieve balance and peace of mind in your day-to-day life. Perhaps your partner is out of town for a few days, and you feel anxious in their absence. Or maybe you’ve decided to move in together, but you find yourself overwhelmed […]

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Attachment

29 Sep 2022

COVID-19 has influenced our lives in multiple ways. Discover how the pandemic has affected people with the different attachment styles.

Understanding Addiction Through Attachment Theory

13 Aug 2022

Addiction affects and is affected by our relationships. Attachment theory helps us understand the roots and symptoms of addictions.

Autism and Attachment Theory: Can Autism Influence Attachment and How?

30 Jul 2022

Discover the relationship between attachment theory and autism! Find out how attachment styles can impact the symptoms of autism.

Attachment Theory and Eating Disorders

17 Jun 2022

Discover the link between attachment theory and eating disorders. Learn how insecure attachment styles might contribute to eating disorders.

Tips for Managing ADHD for Insecure Attachers

13 May 2022

Discover a number of powerful strategies to manage ADHD symptoms efficiently. Our tips in this blog post are designed specifically for people with insecure attachment.

What Is ADHD? How Does It Relate to Attachment?

4 May 2022

Attachment disorders and ADHD are strongly linked. Discover how insecure attachment style has the potential to worsen ADHD symptoms.

18 Apr 2022

Discover how emotional dysregulation relates to insecure attachment and how it might affect your romantic relationships.

6 Myths About Non-Monogamous Relationships

12 Apr 2022

Despite the rise in popularity, ENM relationships are still stigmatized and widely misunderstood. Read our article to discover more!

10 Mar 2022

Discover how the capacity to be kind to yourself relates to attachment, and how it can influence your well-being and quality of life.

Affect Regulation and Child Development

17 Feb 2022

Learn why affect regulation is an essential part of children's emotional development and how it relates to attachment.

Valentine's Day Anxiety: Don't Let Love Get You Down

11 Feb 2022

This year, don't let expectations, comparisons, and self-doubt get you down. Follow these simple tips to prevent getting stressed out, worried, or lonely.

1 Feb 2022

Discover how attachment styles might impact people's ability to be kind to one another and engage in altruistic behavior.

24 Jan 2022

Understand the basics behind where intense emotions come from, why we often feel controlled by them, and how we can learn to regulate and cope with them.

Attachment-Based Goals for Relationships That Last

20 Jan 2022

Inspired to set great New Year's resolutions? Discover tips for setting goals for relationships based on your attachment style.

5 Jan 2022

To inspire and encourage you to give thanks more often, we share 25 benefits that gratitude can bring into your life.

10 Tips for Managing Interpersonal Conflicts During the Holidays

29 Dec 2021

Discover powerful strategies to manage and resolve interpersonal conflicts like a secure attacher.

Holiday Socializing Tips that Work for Your Attachment Style

27 Dec 2021

These tips are aimed at helping insecure attachers prevent and better manage anxiety and stress caused by socializing during the holidays.

How to Plan Ahead to Avoid Holiday Stressors

22 Dec 2021

Don't let insecure attachment ruin your holidays! Use these simple tips to plan ahead and prevent and better manage holiday stressors.

The Power of Forgiveness: 6 Tips on How to Let Go of the Past

21 Dec 2021

Six science-based tips on how to let go of the past, forgive, and free yourself from emotional baggage.

Jealousy in Relationships: Do Attachment Styles Matter?

12 Dec 2021

We explore how attachment styles are related to the experience and expression of jealousy in relationships.

Can Attachment Styles Predict Loneliness? The Role of Emotional Needs

12 Dec 2021

Exploring the link between attachment styles, emotional needs, and the two types of loneliness - emotional and social.

The Superpowers of Securely Attached Adults

7 Dec 2021

The social skills of securely attached adults are their personal superpowers and are usually emotionally balanced, calm, and comfortable with intimacy.

The Superpowers of Fearful Avoidant Attachment

21 Oct 2021

In order to reinforce your strengths, you may first need help identifying them.

What Is the Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style and What Causes It?

30 Sep 2021

Being aware of the negative traits of dismissive avoidant attachment is important. However, you can derive benefits from focusing on the positive aspects.

What Is the Anxious Preoccupied Attachment Style and What Causes It?

16 Aug 2021

Practicing positive psychology can help you to build upon your strengths, increase your self-esteem, and improve your relationships.

An Attachment Bond isn't in Every Relationship. Here’s Why.

11 Aug 2021

Not every close relationship we form is an attachment relationship...and not everyone we love is an attachment figure.

How to Heal Disorganized Attachment: Self-Regulation Tips

8 Aug 2021

Self-regulation means that you manage your emotions and actions in regard to what you want in the long-run. Basically, it means think before you act. This means understanding what triggers you in your relationships.

Avoidant Attachment Triggers and Tips for Healthy Self Regulation

30 Jul 2021

Understanding how to self regulate your emotions is an essential skill. However, having avoidant attachment may impact your ability to do so.

Self-Soothing Strategies for Coping With Anxious Attachment

23 Jul 2021

Understanding how to self regulate our emotions and actions is an essential skill to develop. If you are working towards “earned secure attachment”, think of this as a milestone on that path.

Insecure Attachment Styles: From Childhood to Adulthood

19 Jul 2021

Insecure attachment develops if a child feels that their needs are not met.

The Ultimate Guide to Early Maladaptive Schemas [Full List]

11 Jun 2021

There are 18 Early Maladaptive Schemas that generally form as a result of repeated toxic experiences in childhood or adolescence.

Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style: Causes and Impact on Life

7 Jun 2021

The fearful avoidant attachment is thought to be the most difficult. Sadly, this attachment style is often seen in children that have experienced trauma or abuse.

What Is Anxious Avoidant Attachment and What Causes It?

2 Jun 2021

Anxious avoidant attachment typically develops in the first 18 months of life. During this formative period, a child’s caregiver may have been emotionally unavailable to them most of the time.

What Is Anxious Ambivalent Attachment and What Causes It?

25 May 2021

Anxious ambivalent attachment typically develops in children whose caregiver may have acted nurturing and responsive one minute and unavailable or insensitive the next.

How a Secure Attachment Style Develops in Your Baby

21 May 2021

A secure attachment style forms through a special type of bond between children and their caregivers.

10 Attachment Style Questionnaire Scientists Use to Measure Attachment Styles

23 Mar 2021

Have you ever wondered how attachment style tests are measured? Or whether the test you are completing is actually reliable?

25 Feb 2021

The focus of Schema Therapy is on the treatment of chronic, pervasive, and long-standing dysfunctional behavioral patterns.

How to Get Over Your Ex: 7 Tips for Personal Growth After a Breakup

16 Feb 2021

Breakups are not an easy or pleasant part of our journeys. And yet, it’s exactly those tough moments in our lives that help us grow and learn.

Heartbroken? 6 Tips to Cope with a Breakup [+ 15 Self-Help Resources]

16 Feb 2021

We offer 6 ways to change your mindset to get over your heartbreak once and for all.

10 Attachment Theory Mistakes to Avoid

5 Jan 2021

The most common traps you might fall into when you first discover attachment theory.

Your Attachment Style Influences Your Sex Life [and even Casual Sex]

13 Sep 2020

Attachment styles play a role in the way we approach and experience sex.

Here's What We Know About Attachment Styles in the Workplace

24 Jul 2020

Attachment styles can affect the way we perform in the workplace - mainly because our work environments include social dynamics.

Secure Attachment - from Childhood to Adult Relationships

2 Jul 2020

People who have developed this type of attachment are self-content, easy to connect with and are able to express their feelings.

2 Jul 2020

Research has identified four main attachment styles: anxious / preoccupied, dismissive / avoidant, disorganized and secure.

2 Jul 2020

Parents who are strict, emotionally unavailable and expect their child to be independent usually raise a child with avoidant attachment.

2 Jul 2020

In adulthood, people with this attachment style are extremely inconsistent in their behavior and have a hard time trusting others.

2 Jul 2020

Low self-esteem, strong fear of rejection or abandonment, and clinginess in relationships are common signs of this attachment style.

18 May 2020

We will discuss a few aspects of managing anger and negative emotions.