Sentences with phrase «for avoidant people»

Then for avoidant people, it's more like, «Oh, the person is so needy, so clingy.»

Talking about your feelings is hard for Avoidant people but it is important.

Long - term, ambiguity is likely not great for the avoidant person, either, but it feels more tolerable to someone who has learned it's hard to depend on another person to remain in your life.

Not exact matches

When, in the beginning of their article, the authors spell out their expectations for how their results might turn out, they come up with three possible hypotheses: (1) single people are more avoidant in their attachment styles than coupled people are; (2) single people are more anxious in their attachments than coupled people are, maybe because «they have been rejected by relationship partners who would not accept their anxiety, clinginess, and intrusiveness;» and (3) single and coupled people are similar in their attachment experiences.

Previous studies had found that more men than women have what's called a «dismissing avoidant» style in relationships, meaning they tend to deny their emotions and their need for the other person.

For example, a strong avoidant person with a highly anxious one is a set up for conflict and miseFor example, a strong avoidant person with a highly anxious one is a set up for conflict and misefor conflict and misery.

Further, the Avoidant person may long for the ideal lover, reviewing how all pervious potential partners fell short of that ideal and rationalize their single status with impossibly high standards.

When an Avoidant person is more available, attentive and responsive (as opposed to partially checked out and / or periodically dismissive), the relationship will be more satisfying for both partners.

When an Anxious person meets an Avoidant person, their eagerness for closeness can raise the anxiety of the Avoidant one.

Deactivating strategies are the mental processes by which Avoidant people convince themselves that relationships are not that important and their need for connection and closeness is less than others.

Avoidant people often long for relationships when they are alone although they use «deactivating strategies» to cope.

People with avoidant personality disorder, for example, may respond to pharmacotherapy for social phobia.

Fortunately, having a partner who is more securely attached (less anxious) appears to mitigate the negative effect of attachment avoidance on responsiveness.4 The fact that avoidant people responded the worst when their partner was high in attachment anxiety might be because anxious individuals» yearning for closeness and affirmation pushes away the avoidant partner, resulting in less effective capitalization.

Part of the issue with perceiving others as non-responsive could be a self - fulfilling prophecy: perhaps avoidant individuals share less personal information, making it hard for their partners to respond well, which leads avoidant people to see their partners as less responsive.

This makes sense because avoidant people usually feel less close to their partners and are sensitive about becoming too close to the partner for fear of getting hurt, so they wouldn't put much effort into communicating with their partner via text.

For people low in avoidant attachment (i.e., those with less of a need for emotional distance in relationships), their desire for sex was higher when their partners were more responsive, but for those who are highly avoidant (i.e., those who do express desires to be distant from partners) actually desired sex less as partner responsiveness increasFor people low in avoidant attachment (i.e., those with less of a need for emotional distance in relationships), their desire for sex was higher when their partners were more responsive, but for those who are highly avoidant (i.e., those who do express desires to be distant from partners) actually desired sex less as partner responsiveness increasfor emotional distance in relationships), their desire for sex was higher when their partners were more responsive, but for those who are highly avoidant (i.e., those who do express desires to be distant from partners) actually desired sex less as partner responsiveness increasfor sex was higher when their partners were more responsive, but for those who are highly avoidant (i.e., those who do express desires to be distant from partners) actually desired sex less as partner responsiveness increasfor those who are highly avoidant (i.e., those who do express desires to be distant from partners) actually desired sex less as partner responsiveness increased.

Alpha coefficients of (reliability) questions about the subscales of secure, avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles regarding a student sample (1480 people) were calculated to be respectively 0.86, 0.84 and 0.85 for all the subjects, which indicate good internal consistency of Adult Attachment Scale.

The ASQ includes five scales: (1) ASQ - F1, «Confidence in relationships»; higher scores in this subscale indicate a secure attachment (e.g., «I find it relatively easy to get close to other people»); (2) ASQ - F2, «Need for approval» denotes both worried and fearful aspects of attachment, characterized by an individual's need for others» approval and acceptance (e.g., «It's important for me to avoid doing things that others won't like»); (3) ASQ - F3: the subjects» anxious behavior in searching for others, motivated by the necessity to fulfill dependency needs, is depicted by the subscale «Preoccupation with relationships»; it represents a central topic in the conceptualization of anxious / ambivalent attachment (e.g., «It's very important for me to have a close relationship»); (4) ASQ - F4, «Discomfort with closeness» reflects an avoidant attachment (e.g., «I prefer to keep to myself»), and (5) ASQ - F5 «Relationships as secondary» is typical of a dismissive style, in which subjects tend to emphasize achievements and independence, in order to protect themselves against hurt and vulnerability (e.g., «To ask for help is to admit that you're a failure»).