Avoidant people often long for relationships when they are alone although they use «deactivating strategies» to cope.
When the Secure person can easily grant the «space» that the Avoidant person says they need,
the Avoidant person often realizes more quickly they no longer need space.
Not exact matches
Socialized cats, like stray cats, are
often more accustomed to and friendlier toward
people, while feral cats are more cautious and
avoidant.
Often, the
Avoidant person will come out of a period of loneliness with a renewed commitment to see a new partner in more a positive light.
Anxious,
Avoidant and Fearful -
Avoidant people have a harder time with the ebbs & flows and the conflicts and their interactions
often become «protests» about their experience of the connection: too little, too much, too unpredictable.
In a nutshell,
people who are anxious tend to intensely desire connections with other
people and are worried that their partners will abandon them whereas those who are
avoidant tend to be wary of closeness to others and
often feel that their partners want to be closer to them than they would like.
People with these disorders tend to have problems handling difficult emotions and
often respond with physical and psychic symptoms or
avoidant behavioural patterns.