Thais Gibson is the founder and CEO of The Personal Development School and Creator of Gibson's Integrated Attachment TheoryTM. In professional relationships, attachment styles serve as guides that ...

It could be negatively impacting your relationships. When we form a relationship with a partner, family member or close friend, inevitably, we bring our emotional baggage along too. And there’s ...

“Love is not a novel whereby at its end, the protagonists marry[1]” - Nizar Qabbani When Kim Bartholomew (1991) envisioned four prototypes of attachment patterns in adults, she was the first to ...

How a person sees themselves and how they engage in their closest relationships can be a product of their unique attachment style. A person’s attachment style may be shaped in part in their formative ...

Fearful avoidant attachment sits in a painful middle ground. You crave closeness, intimacy, and emotional safety, but the moment it feels real, your body panics. Your mind scans for danger, and your ...

Learning about attachment styles is arguably one of the best ways to understand why you act the way you do in romantic ...

Dismissive avoidant attachment often gets a bad rap and, sometimes, that can be justified based on “bad” behavior in relationships. That said, dismissive avoidant people are also widely misunderstood.