As Valentine's Day approaches, restaurant bookings fill up and couples exchange cards, flowers, and carefully chosen gifts. For some, it's a day of closeness and connection. For others, it can bring ...

Attachment styles are relational styles, not verdicts. When labels turn rigid, they harm rather than heal—missing the fluid, relational, and changeable nature of attachment.

Simply put, a securely attached adult is comfortable with intimacy and readily works to repair relationship issues. Anxiously attached people often worry about their partner’s capacity to love them ...

Attachment theory reveals how early caregiver relationships shape adult responses to workplace feedback. Secure individuals see feedback as constructive, while anxious individuals become hypervigilant ...

Many people think they understand their attachment style based on personality tests or general descriptions, but experts say common beliefs about attachment patterns can be misleading. New insights ...

Sheri Madigan receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation, an anonymous donor, and ...

Source: Kimbell Art Museum, The Madonna and Child with a Female Saint and the Infant Saint John, labeled for reuse Wikimedia Commons Attachment theory seems to be the most recent in a long line of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Eric Wood writes about college mental health and emerging adults Understanding attachment styles is important as they reflect ...

Martin Graff does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...