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Attachment Styles and Friendship: How Early Bonds Shape Adult Connections
10 Dec 2025
Do you find yourself feeling anxious when your friends seem absent, and trying hard to bring them close to you again? Or, do you find that you’re the friend who pulls away when the friendship starts to feel too close? If so, this might be because you have an insecure attachment style – yes, even […]
Am I in Love or Just Limerent? How to Tell the Difference
5 Nov 2025
If you’re constantly checking your phone for their messages, thinking about them at work or school, or laying awake at night analyzing your interactions, you may think you’re in love – but there’s another word for this specific kind of love that takes over our lives. Psychologist Dorothy Tennov called this type of love “limerence“, […]
Post Date 8: Questions You Should Ask Yourself After a Date
17 Oct 2025
When first dates go well, it’s easy to get caught up in the rush of excitement about this new person’s potential role in our lives – so much so that we often ignore our gut feelings or bypass red flags. Today, we’re exploring what to do after a first date to deeply understand and evaluate […]
How to Prepare for a First Date: Tips and Exercises for Getting Psychologically Ready
17 Oct 2025
It’s difficult to find anyone who doesn’t feel at least a little nervous before a first date. It doesn’t matter if you’ve been on hundreds of dates or only a couple, that build-up before you go to meet the person is often anxiety-inducing. Many people feel under pressure, exposed, and self-conscious. This isn’t strange – […]
Signs of Anxious Attachment Style: 5 Most Common Traits in Adults
1 Oct 2025
Do you feel more emotionally invested in relationships than the people around you? Do you often feel on-edge about where you stand with someone else, or unsure whether they feel the same way about you as you do about them? If yes, then you may have an anxious attachment style. Anxious attachment styles can lead […]
Fearful Avoidant Triggers: Why Do I Feel Triggered By Both Closeness and Distance?
23 Sep 2025
Have you ever argued with a partner and felt torn between needing space and needing to keep them close? Maybe you’ve dated somebody whose responses to conflict were confusing like this, or you have a friend who acts the same way. This push-pull reaction to relationship difficulties is typical of the fearful-avoidant attachment style. When […]
Are AI Relationships the Future?
16 Sep 2025
Most of us have used generative artificial intelligence at one point or another by now. Whether it’s as a tool for searching, ideas, or communication, AI has lots of potential uses – but would you consider “friend” to be one of them? A few weeks ago, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made headlines for suggesting that […]
Fearful Avoidant vs Dismissive Avoidant: Key Differences and Similarities
19 Aug 2025
The more you learn about attachment styles, the more confusing they can seem – particularly when we introduce lots of different names like “fearful avoidant” and “dismissive avoidant”. Fearful avoidant and dismissive avoidant are two distinct attachment styles, but they do share similar traits. If you know you have avoidant traits but aren’t sure which […]
Avoidant Discard: Why Do People Suddenly End Great Relationships?
19 Jun 2025
Everything seemed to be heading in the right direction – your relationship was blossoming, you started to share more of your lives with each other, and you were even making future plans. Suddenly, out of nowhere, they pulled away and ended things without any apparent reason. This might have been a case of what the […]
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