Relationships - The Origins of How We Relate to Others

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Working model of relationships

A conceptual model of relationships with our current partners -including their availability, warmth, and ability to provide security- as derived from our childhood experience with how available and warm our parents were.

Secure attachment style

An attachment style characterizedby feeling of security in relationships. Individuals with this style are comfortable with intimacy and want to be close to other during times of threat and uncertainty.

  • Feel secure in relationships 
  • Comfortable with intimacy 
  • Desire to be close to others during times of stress 

Avoidant attachment style

An attachment style characterized by feeling of insecurity in relationships. Individuals with this style exhibit compulsive self-reliance, prefer distance from others, and are dismissive and detached during times of threat and uncertainty.

  • Feel insecure in relationships 
  • Feel the need to be completely self-reliant 
  • Prefer distance from others; during stress, become detached and dismissive of others 
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Anxious attachment style

An attachment style characterized by feeling of insecurity in relationships. Individuals with this style compulsively seek closeness, express continual worries about relationships, and excessively try to get closer to other during times of threat and uncertainty.

  • Feel insecure in relationships 
  • Compulsively seek closeness but constantly worry about the relationship 
  • During stress, excessively try to get closer to others

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