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 ...

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 styles, popularized by culture and platforms like TikTok, often oversimplify complex relationship dynamics. Not set in stone, these styles are variations, not diagnoses. Understanding them ...

What is your interpersonal attachment style, and how might it affect your relationship? Based on the works of Bartholomew and Horowitz, etc., there are four adult attachment styles: Secure, ...

We are hardwired to need people, and there is nothing wrong with that. For example, you might lean on or need your partner or spouse more during challenging times in your life. Sometimes, our ...

New research provides evidence that the best way to spend time with a romantic partner depends on their specific emotional ...

Romance has always been a hot topic of conversation: it seems you can’t go one family dinner without a relative asking, “So are you seeing anybody yet?” But with the rise of social media, the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." My last relationship ended in a 37-second phone call. After almost a year of being in each other’s lives, ...

Adult attachment styles are derived from the work of John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth, and other researchers throughout the 1960s-90s who identified distinct patterns of emotional responses in babies to ...

A lucky 58% of people are raised with secure attachment — the ability to trust their emotions, express their needs and believe that the people they love will still love them back. The rest of us often ...

How you interact with people as an adult can depend on the important relationships you had when you were young. If you didn’t get the support, care, love, and comfort you needed during childhood, you ...