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no longer felt suffocated and was less bothered by the changes she made. After six months, during which time Grace barely ever a ...

conflict occurs, enter the new information. This will help in your quest to break your insecure patterns. But moving toward secu ...

To my father, who taught me how to dive into the biggest waves, and to my mother, who made scientific discovery part of growing ...

in finding ways to spend less time together. If you are with an avoidant partner, you are constantly being rejected and rebuffed ...

Eventually Alana’s relationship with Stan ended. She never really grasped that her fights with him were about something much mor ...

INTRODUCTION The New Science of Adult Attachment ...

Natalie, 38, always dreamed of sharing her leisure time with her husband. After years of resentment and bitter fights over his ...

order to be with this person. There is a major difference between couples who are dealing with non-attachment-related issues and ...

10. When Abnormal Becomes the Norm: An Attachment Guide to Breaking Up Clay and Tom were enjoying a romantic dinner on their ann ...

instead of leaving, well, maybe they deserve it! Others believe that these people are reliving troubled childhood experiences in ...

I gave him the benefit of the doubt, allowing for the possibility that I’d misread him. Soon after that, he asked to go out with ...

My confidence in my appearance was another story. I felt insecure about my looks, and it didn’t help when Craig would zoom in on ...

1. Decoding Relationship Behavior Only two weeks into dating this guy and already I’m making myself miserable worrying that he ...

an opinion. He interrupted the speaker: “Hey, listen up, my ‘genius’ girlfriend wants to say something.” Another time, at the be ...

someone else and leave, because I was afraid I’d never have the strength to leave him first. Luckily Craig found the strength. W ...

leave but never actually following through). Her attachment system remained chronically activated, at least during the first few ...

adventure but rather a deactivating strategy to keep them isolated.) In fact, in a study of married and cohabiting couples, Cana ...

that he was hurting her, then he could treat her as well as he treated everyone else. Marsha wasn’t aware that Craig treated her ...

above and many more. The story of this discovery, and what came after it, is what this book is about. IS LOVE ENOUGH? A few year ...

usually “pleads the fifth”—choosing not to talk to you—you’ve become the enemy. Your only crime has been to become too close to ...