Dismissive avoidant attachment often gets a bad rap and, sometimes, that can be justified based on “bad” behavior in relationships. That said, dismissive avoidant people are also widely misunderstood.

Some couples can’t get enough — or too much — of each other. Here’s why, according to the anxious–avoidant push-pull of ...

As a fundamental aspect of personality, attachment style develops early in life, when infants formulate inner ideas of those who are charged with caring for them. Luckily, most people emerge from ...

This is the second part of a two-part series about dismissive-avoidant attachment styles. The first part is here. If you are in a relationship with someone with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style, ...

While the events that lead to love, marriage, affairs and divorce can often feel arbitrary, for psychologists there is a definitive science behind why some relationships work and some just don’t. In ...

Here are five clear lessons about closeness, distance, fear, repair and growth, the five crucial building blocks of ...

You hate weddings and loathe Valentine’s Day. You gag at PDA. Every time you start to get close to someone new, you lace up your New Balances and sprint in the opposite direction. If you just won this ...

Psychologists have been studying attachment styles for decades, but in recent years, the concept has generated quite a bit of buzz on social media. If you’re not already familiar, your attachment ...