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When we feel safely linked to our partners, we more easily roll with the hurts they inevitably inflict, and we are less likely to be aggressively hostile when we get mad at them.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
the application of attachment theory to adult love.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Third, the polka is all about attachment distress.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Women who generally denied their attachment needs
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
They turn the blame inward, on themselves.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Losing connection with our loved one jeopardizes our sense of security.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Once partners know how to speak their need and bring each other close, every trial they face together simply makes their love stronger.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
“We are starting to label each other, to prove the other one is the bad one here.
Sue Johnson • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Openness to new experience and flexibility of belief