The Strange Situation: Understanding How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Marriage
Wondering what the Strange Situation reveals about your relationships? Created by Mary Ainsworth, the Strange Situation is a key experiment in child psychology that uncovers attachment styles between infants and caregivers. This brief but powerful observational study offers invaluable insights into human bonding. Read on to learn how this procedure works, its importance, and what […]
Satisfying Love Relationships: How to Build a Secure Attachment
Attachment theory is a psychological model that describes how people develop emotional attachments to others. For example, when you feel protected, seen, and supported by your partner, you have a secure attachment. How we connect with our partners is part of what helps us feel satisfied in our marriages and love relationships. What is secure […]
Walking on Eggshells? The Disorganized Attachment Style
What is a disorganized attachment style? How does it start? What can you and your partner or spouse do in your marriage or love relationship to heal and create a more satisfying relationship so that neither of you feel that you have to “walk on eggshells” around each other? First, we need to be compassionate […]
Anxious Preoccupied Attachment: Entangled in Your Marriage?
Have you ever worried that your partner or spouse doesn’t love you enough? Do you feel that you can’t get close to them? Do you feel jealousy and fear of being abandoned in your marriage or love relationship? These are just a few signs of an anxious preoccupied attachment style. This is a relationship connection […]
Loneliness and the Avoidant Attachment Style
Loving at Arm’s Length? Are you married or in a serious relationship with someone who seems emotionally distant and tries to push you away? Or, do you ever feel like you don’t want to get too close to your partner or spouse, even though you love and care about them? If so, you may have […]
How to Parent When You Both Work Full-Time
Many male-female couples start out intending to share parenting duties 50/50. However, they can quickly fall into old societal gender roles once the baby arrives, where the woman takes on much more than the man despite both spouses having full-time careers. What can couples do to ensure parenting and household duties don’t end up destroying their intimacy, and even their marriage?
