Tag: attachment anxiety

When You Are Overly Sensitive To Your Partner’s Moods You might be overly sensitive to your partner’s moods if you grew up in an emotionally unstable environment. You might feel anxious when you know they have had a hard day You might feel a compulsion to make their perceived pain go away You might wonder if they are feeling the way they are because of something you did When they change their expression, you wonder what YOU did If they pull away for any reason, you feel anxious and assume it is about you In all of these cases, your attention is not with YOU. It is with THEM. How would it feel to re-focus on caring for YOU in that moment of anxiety?

When You Are Overly Sensitive To Your Partner’s Moods

November 23, 2021

If you grew up in an emotionally unstable environment, you would have learned to watch for any little thing that might set them off. You learn to do things perfectly to avoid being shouted at or punished. You learn to …

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what is attachment anxiety?

What is Attachment Anxiety?

August 19, 2021

Attachment anxiety is when we learn as children that we can’t depend on the adults around us, so we adapt our behaviour to suit the situation we are experiencing in that relationship to stay alive, fed and loved.⁣ One adaptation …

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