Sentences with phrase «while avoidant partners»

While avoidant partners are often not very confrontational, anxious partners can be very volatile and react with extreme emotions if they think something is going wrong.

Not exact matches

Those with avoidant attachment styles are more hesitant to become close to others as a general rule and appreciate more solo time, while anxious attachment styles desire greater closeness and might have unrealistic expectations about their partner's comfort around intimacy.

Anxious individuals tend to strongly desire relationships and want to be especially close to their partners, while avoidant people generally desire less closeness, are less trusting and less reliant on their partners.

Studies suggest that partners living in unsatisfied marriages use avoidant style in managing conflict, while satisfied partners use collaboration style.

So what we know from research is that the more avoidant folks who compartmentalize sex actually enjoy sex less because if you think about it it's kind of one dimensional and their partners usually find it aversive after while if they want a relationship.

Therefore, positive responses from the partner may have reinforced secure selections, while negative responses may have punished anxious or avoidant choices.