Sentences with phrase «whereas avoidant people»

Anxious individuals thought that other people knowing about their relationship would make them feel better about themselves, whereas avoidant people thought that it would make them feel worse about themselves.

Anxious people were consistently more anxious with all their sexual partners, whereas avoidant people were not avoidant with all their partners — they were avoidant with some but not others.

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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.