An "almost secure" relationship can look functional from the outside. There is affection, reliability, shared routines and an ...

Falling in love is exciting. The butterflies, the late-night conversations, the feeling that someone new might change ...

True or false? There’s rarely a time where secure is the suboptimal option. Think about it: You want the mattress lassoed to the roof of your car to be secure before you vroom, vroom on home. You want ...

Earned secure attachment shows that security can develop despite early adversity. In therapy, relational safety and narrative ...

The rise of therapy-speak has paved the way for attachment styles to become a mainstay in daily conversation, which isn’t a bad thing. Your attachment style is like your personal emotional ...

A healthy relationship is not one without conflict, but one with the confidence that we can get over it together, Jeff Guenther explains.

Attachment styles are rooted in our families of origin: The ways our primary caregivers related to us in childhood have a direct correlation with how we relate to people when we enter adulthood. Being ...

(CNN) — Do you identify as anxious, avoidant, disorganized or secure? For those who aren’t up on pop psychology vernacular, these terms refer to the four attachment styles. Attachment styles describe ...

In the beginning of your relationship, you were swept off your feet and fell in love with your partner. Slowly your relationship shifted and you began to have small disagreements. These became larger, ...

American singles have no shortage of rubrics they can turn to for determining romantic compatibility. Some of these are more grounded in folk wisdom than others — say, zodiac sign versus Myers-Briggs ...

Parents may worry about connecting with a child who is hard to comfort. hobo_018/E+ via Getty Images Children with difficult temperaments, including personality tendencies such as irritability and ...