"Ambivalent feelings" refer to having mixed emotions or conflicting thoughts about something or someone. It means feeling both positive and negative emotions simultaneously, making it hard to have a clear or definite opinion. Full definition
«We have a lot of ambivalent feelings about breasts being used to feed because we see them as sexual objects,» said ABC News parenting contributor Ann Pleshette Murphy. (abcnews.go.com)
Partnered men show both high PRQ and NRQ than do partnered women, suggesting that more older men than women experience ambivalent feelings toward their spouse or partner and more women than men have relationships of indifferent quality, with relatively low costs and relatively low benefits. (academic.oup.com)
And once you develop ambivalent feelings for a person, «future interactions with that person may be judged through that lens,» says psychologist Julianne Holt - Lunstad of Brigham Young University. (scientificamerican.com)