Not exact matches
Yet the old - fashioned notion of «a sufficiency» — a secure, modest income, rather than a potentially exorbitant but
insecure one, that allows one to form
attachments, make commitments, and engage in activities that are good in themselves — is very attractive to many Americans.
Some people tend to be open and trusting (secure
attachment), some people tend to be more needy and
insecure (anxious
attachment), and
yet others prefer to keep their distance (avoidant
attachment).
We believe that this survey is the best test psychologists have
yet devised for capturing what poets, playwrights, and novelists for thousands of years have called lovesickness and what in this book is called
insecure romantic or anxious romantic
attachment.