Skip The Frustration By Understanding Attachment Styles

08/26/24 • 24 min

Everyone has an attachment style. Knowing yours will enable you to manage relationships effectively as an adult, not just react at people. You'll feel much more able to communicate your needs, and much more in the driver's seat of your own experience in relationship, if you understand your own attachment style.

So join me while I break down the main attachment styles. I'll explain how to manage and even avoid conflict in relationships where you have different styles.

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So join me while I break down the main attachment styles. I'll explain how to manage and even avoid conflict in relationships where you have different styles.

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Notice what it is you actually want to FEEL – not just the action you want your partner to take, but how you want to feel. Pick one overwhelmingly desired feeling.
See if you can challenge yourself to make no one wrong – your partner isn’t wrong for not understanding yet and you aren’t wrong for wanting it in the first place.
Ask how can we use this to connect and learn more about each other? How can I share about myself vulnerably here?
Assume that one thing you think they need to do isn’t available or is impossible for whatever reason. Try on sentences or alternative things your partner could say or do to help you get the feeling you want anyway. When I say try it on, I mean really imagine it and see how it feels in your body.

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Sex Help for Smart People - Skip The Frustration By Understanding Attachment Styles

Transcript

[00:00:20] Hey everyone, welcome to episode 31. Today we are diving into attachment styles and how understanding yours can really So, attachment styles tend to come out in all our relationships, we'll focus today on romantic or sexual relationships, but even friendships and workplaces definitely come out.
[00:00:51] And everyone has some sort of attachment wound. We just don't get out of childhood without a little bit, and knowing yours is so important to be able to manage your relationship