Avoidant attachment
A pattern in which closeness or tension automatically triggers withdrawal.
How it shows up
When it gets serious, you cool. You experience needing another person as weakness. From outside it looks like self-sufficiency; from inside it is often a silence with no room for help.
What we do with it in therapy
Withdrawal isn’t a flaw of character but a strategy learned in surroundings where closeness wasn’t safe. We work on staying in contact one second longer than is comfortable — and then one more.
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See also
Stepfamily
The family that forms when two partners with children from previous relationships come together.
Restlessness
A bodily inability to stay still, which we often mistake for a need to work.
Mentalising
The ability to understand your own and others' behaviour as an expression of inner states, not as fact.
