Category: Attachment Style
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Understanding Fearful-Avoidant Attachment Without Shame
🔍 In Brief: what happens when you crave intimacy but fear it at the same time, and everyone tells you you’re the problem? Emotional healing becomes nearly impossible when fearful-avoidant attachment is treated as a character flaw rather than a learned survival response to impossible contradictions in early caregiving. The cost of being labeled “toxic”…
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Emotional Healing: Why You Keep Running From What You Want Most
🔍 In Brief: there’s a cycle that exhausts people in relationships: craving connection, then feeling trapped the moment it arrives, fleeing to solitude, then aching with loneliness that drives them back toward someone new. This push-pull relationship dynamic reveals what psychologists call fearful avoidant attachment style — a pattern where you simultaneously desire and fear…