If you try to create and sustain a romantic relationship with someone who has an avoidant personality, or the full-blown personality disorder known as Avoidant Personality Disorder, the experience can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some couples can’t get enough — or too much — of each other. Here’s why, according to the anxious–avoidant push-pull of attachment science in relationships.

As we continue our journey through personality disorders, it is worth pausing briefly to reflect on how far we have come. Over the past weeks, we have explored the landscape of personality disorders ...

People with avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) have a pervasive negative self-image, so they avoid emotional closeness.Ol'ga Efimova/Getty Images 2.4% of Americans have avoidant personality disorder ...

Are you dating an avoidant type? You know, the hyper-independent type that is uncomfortable with any form of emotional intimacy? If you are, then you're probably having issues with meeting them where ...

If there was one go-to guidebook for relationships, you bet most people would commit it to memory. But humans are innately complex, emotional beings with a distinctive combination of chromosomes and ...

You hate weddings and loathe Valentine’s Day. You gag at PDA. Every time you start to get close to someone new, you lace up your New Balances and sprint in the opposite direction. If you just won this ...

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