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Attachment Styles and How they Affect Your Relationships

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Learn how your attachment style affects your relationships.

I f you’ve ever putzed around the internet, looking for why your relationships might all be screwed up (and screwed up in the same ways, I might add), then you’ve probably come across Attachment Theory. Attachment Theory is an area of psychology that describes the nature of emotional attachment between humans. It begins as children with our attachment to our parents . The nature of this attachment, and how well it’s fostered and cared for, will then influence the nature of our attachment to romantic partners later in our life. 1 Attachment theory began in the 1950s and has since amassed a smal

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