Safe haven and secure base are the two biological functions your partner must serve. Learn how Bowlby and Ainsworth’s attachment concepts apply to adult romantic relationships, and what to do when these functions break down.
The Wound That Doesn’t Have a Name Most people who walk into my office don’t
The proximity seeking system is a biological drive, rooted in attachment theory, that shapes how you fight, how you love, and whether your relationship survives the hard seasons. Understanding it changes everything.
Secure functioning is not an attachment style. It is a relational operating system, a way two people agree to run their relationship so that both nervous systems can rest. Here is what it means, where it comes from, and how to build it.
The Question Nobody Wants to Ask Out Loud Why is it that the person you
Protest behavior is your nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do when it perceives a threat to your most important bond. Here’s what attachment science says about why you text twelve times, pick fights over nothing, or go silent to get a reaction.
The Protest Polka is Sue Johnson’s name for the pursue-withdraw cycle in Emotionally Focused Therapy. One partner reaches for connection, the other pulls away, and both end up alone. Here is how it works, why it is so hard to break, and what you can do about it.
The attachment cycle is a biologically driven sequence of protest, despair, and detachment that plays out when couples feel disconnected. Learn how EFT explains the negative interaction cycle and what you can do to break it.
Earned secure attachment means people who grew up insecurely attached can develop full security through therapy, corrective relationships, and reflective practice. The science is clear: your attachment history is not your destiny.
What is secure attachment? A couples therapist with 16 years of experience explains the biology, earned security, and how couples build secure attachment together.
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