What You Need to Know about Attachment Styles and Your Relationships

An attachment bond is an emotional relationship involving the exchange of comfort, care, and pleasure between an individual and another person (e.g., a child and their parent or caregiver). Early researchers on attachment—John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and Mary Main—described this bond as “a lasting psychological connectedness between human beings.” Bowlby believed your early childhood influences …

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