You've heard of it: distancing your relationships, suppressing your emotions, fearing intimacy. This is how I manage being an ...

Marie and her husband started seeing a couples therapist when the early years of parenthood put a strain on their marriage. Their two kids were 3 years and 4 months old, respectively, when COVID ...

In a recent blog post, “What is Anxious Self-Attachment?” I discussed how attachment theory can be used to better understand our relationship with ourselves. Attachment theory has helped many people ...

While some of this content, like that made by actual psychologists or therapists, can be educational, the general social media trend of applying attachment theory to modern dating ...

Attachment theory may have originated in 1958 by British psychiatrist John Bowlby, but it’s become a popular conversation topic online (with over 348.3 million TikTok views on the topic). If you’re ...

"They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you." These are the words of poet Philip Larkin, penned in ...

If you're struggling to understand your partner and why they act the way they do, try using attachment theory. Attachment theory is a tremendous field of research that is fascinating to read about.

Children who experience disorganized attachment often fear their caregivers, but crave their attention. If you think your ...