There are at least two strategies for dealing with this attachment insecurity: (a) become preoccupied with relational partners by being overly sensitive to partner's emotional moves and developing a sustained expectation that partner's will eventually betray or abandon them (i.e., attachment anxiety), and / or (b) avoid developing relationships of
any significant emotional depth to avoid getting hurt in the first place, which often leads insecurely attached individuals to become emotionally aloof, overly fixated with self - reliance, and emotionally unavailable to others in times of need (i.e., attachment avoidance).
Not exact matches
Emotional intimacy is the
depth awareness and sharing of
significant meanings and feelings — the touching of the inmost selves of two human beings.
Portrays
significant depth of
emotional and sociological ideals such as growing old, finding love and dealing with inner demons.
Presented by Jessica Bell, M.A., Michigan State University «Statistically
significant increases in the frequency,
depth and emotion of Kinship and Sentience / Individuality responses indicate that the animal portraits encouraged participants to conceptualize animals as conscious beings with
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