Topic
Attachment
How early attachment patterns shape adult relationships and mental health, plus the evidence on attachment-informed therapy in 2026.
24 articles tagged Attachment
Affection Addiction: What Is Actually Happening
Affection addiction is not a diagnosis in any classification system. The pull behind the word is real, and attachment and reinforcement explain it better.
Brad Pitt’s Sobriety: What Recovery Looks Like
Brad Pitt has spoken about years of sobriety. What long-term recovery actually involves, why the risk curve flattens, and what the milestone talk gets wrong.
Fear of Abandonment: When Is It a Problem?
Fear of abandonment is ordinary at low intensity and a treatable pattern at the far end. Where it comes from, why reassurance stops working, and what helps.
Ambiguous Loss and the Grief With No Ending
A family can grieve someone still alive for years, with no ritual and no end. Ambiguous loss is the name for that, and the least supported grief there is.
Collective Grief: When Your Scene Loses Someone
Why a community grieves together when a figure who shaped it dies, what makes this different from private loss, and why the rituals are doing real work.
Stages of Grief After a Breakup: The Evidence
Breakup grief does not move in stages, and one diary study found the emotions run on different curves. Contact with your ex slows two of them measurably.
Lonely in a Relationship: Why It Happens
Being lonely with someone beside you is not a contradiction. Two kinds of loneliness exist, and having one need met does nothing at all for the other.
Why Making Friends as an Adult Is So Hard
Adult friendship fails on logistics far more often than on likeability. The research points at one requirement nobody plans for, and it is measured in hours.
The Male Loneliness Epidemic: What Is Actually True
The phrase is everywhere and the evidence behind it is messier than the headlines. What holds up is a structural problem, and it is not that men feel less.
Camp Rock 3 and Why Nostalgia Helps So Much
Camp Rock 3 is trending because nostalgia works. It was called a disorder for centuries; research shows it counteracts loneliness and is triggered by it.
Overthinking in Relationships: Why Certainty Never Arrives
Relationship overthinking runs on a question that cannot be answered, so the reassurance works for an hour. What keeps the loop going and what interrupts it.
Anxious Attachment Style: Signs and What Helps
Anxious attachment is a learned strategy for holding onto closeness, not a fixed flaw. The signs, where it comes from, and what the evidence says changes it.
Codependency: A Word That Never Became a Diagnosis
Codependency was proposed as a personality disorder in 1986 and no manual ever adopted it. The pattern is real; the label carries more than it can hold.
Avoidant Attachment Style: What It Is and What Helps
Avoidant attachment is not an absence of need. Studies measuring the body find avoidant people aroused while reporting, quite honestly, that they are fine.
Disorganised Attachment Style: What It Actually Means
Disorganised attachment is an infant classification describing seconds of behaviour, not an adult personality type. The distinction changes what you do.
Emotional Cheating: Where the Line Actually Is
Emotional cheating has no agreed definition, which is why couples argue about it. Three markers separate a close friendship from an affair, none of them sexual.
Emotional Manipulation: How to Recognise It
Emotional manipulation works by making you doubt your own read on events. The tactics have names, the pattern is recognisable, and the first test is about you.
Relationships and Mental Health: What the Evidence Shows
A 2026 guide to how relationships shape mental health: attachment styles, what the research says makes relationships work, and when couples support helps.
Why You Grieve a Character Who Was Never Real
Parasocial bonds with fictional characters use the same machinery as real relationships. Why the grief is genuine, and when the attachment is worth examining.
The Psychology of Taylor Swift: Why the Bond Feels Real
The psychology of Taylor Swift fandom: why a one-sided bond feels mutual, what parasocial attachment research found, and where closeness starts to cost.
The Psychology of Love: Why We Love and How It Lasts
The psychology of love explained: why we fall in love, the stages from passion to companionship, how attachment shapes us, and what makes love actually last.
Words of Affirmation: What the Evidence Says
Words of affirmation is the best known of the five love languages, and the framework around it does not hold up. What it points at is real, and worth keeping.
Little League: When Youth Sport Stops Being Fun
Little League season puts youth sport in the spotlight. Most children quit by their early teens, the reasons are consistent, and the car journey matters most.
Self-Sabotage: What It Means and Why You Do It
Self-sabotage is not a hidden part of you working against the rest. Every one of those behaviours is doing a job, and the useful question is which job.