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Learning to study

Learning to study — I need advice on what subject to study to learn to study. A little backstory, I've never studied a day in my life, like actually studied, if I didn't learn something in class then I felt it wasn't my…

r/DecidingToBeBetterpost4/8/2026
Other attachment styles

Other attachment styles — I know the normal 4: Secure, Anxious/preoccupied fearful avoidant, dismissive avoidant, plus disorganized, which is just sort of an "all of the above" In doing parts work, I've been trying to figure…

r/attachment_theorypost4/23/2025
How do I get my google sites webpage to appear in google searches?

How do I get my google sites webpage to appear in google searches? — I have created a personal webpage under google sites. It is: [https://sites.google.com/view/fhcomponent/domov](https://sites.google.com/view/fhcomponent/domov) For some reason it does not show up in…

r/web_designpost4/28/2025
Google not indexing images from my site? Images don't show up in search results?

Google not indexing images from my site? Images don't show up in search results? — I submitted my website to Google months ago and they've successfully crawled it many times. For some reason it doesn't seem they are indexing any of the images on the site. My website is image heavy a…

r/SEOpost5/1/2025
How to use tools like createfy or vidnoz in other languages ​​without causing problems

How to use tools like createfy or vidnoz in other languages ​​without causing problems — Hello! I was trying to leverage AI tools that allow for mass content creation, such as Creatify or Vidnoz, but the problem is that I want to do it in Spanish, and the default Spanish voices are very r…

r/digital_marketingpost5/3/2025
Why did it take OpenAI 24 hours to roll back a faulty model?

Why did it take OpenAI 24 hours to roll back a faulty model? — Hi everyone, I read through [an article by OpenAI](https://openai.com/index/expanding-on-sycophancy/) and stumbled upon the following segment: >With the recent GPT‑4o update, we started the rollout …

r/DevOpspost5/4/2025
Different Businesses Need Different Content Formats – Here's Why (i will not promote)

Different Businesses Need Different Content Formats – Here's Why (i will not promote) — Hey everyone! One thing I see often overlooked is the fact that **not all businesses need the same type of content formats**. Depending on your target audience and the type of business you run, the …

r/startupspost5/4/2025
WooCommerce CSS Best Practices with Block Editor

WooCommerce CSS Best Practices with Block Editor — I need advise/help with best practices when implementing CSS for WooCommerce using the block editor. WooCommerce warns against writing CSS based off the block name classes but the current default Gut…

r/Wordpresspost5/5/2025
What Platform Engineering Really Means (and How It Differs from DevOps and SRE)

What Platform Engineering Really Means (and How It Differs from DevOps and SRE) — Hey all, I just wrote a piece breaking down what **Platform Engineering** is — not just as a buzzword, but as a real discipline that’s emerging in many engineering organizations. 🔧 **Key takeaways…

r/DevOpspost5/6/2025
Making the entire website a fixed-width

Making the entire website a fixed-width — This is probably a stupid question, so I apologize in advance. I am working on a website for my dad that he had someone create back in 2013. Everything is fine so far, but the only problem is that he …

r/Wordpresspost5/6/2025
Being an Entrepreneur is bloody hard

Being an Entrepreneur is bloody hard — That's a quote from Dan Pena and it's absolutely right. The bum boys on Instagram, YouTube and all the rest that pretend like it's easy are 1000% full of it. The true life of a business person and e…

r/Entrepreneurpost5/7/2025
I made a custom date-time picker using pure JS and CSS.

I made a custom date-time picker using pure JS and CSS. — Hey r/webdev. A few months ago I put together this date-time picker system for a project I was working on, as I needed a professional way for users to be able to select dates and times for various fun…

r/webdevpost5/7/2025
Simple Hover Effect

Simple Hover Effect — **Hi,** I'm new to WordPress and I'm trying to create a hover effect for my homepage. Specifically, I’d like an image to switch to a colored version when the mouse hovers over it—the default image wo…

r/Wordpresspost5/7/2025
Is There A Social Login Plugin That Still Interacts With The user_register Action When Making An Account?

Is There A Social Login Plugin That Still Interacts With The user_register Action When Making An Account? — Hi everyone, On my WordPress website, I have some custom code that runs on the user\_register action after the user has submitted the registration form which I basically use to give the new account t…

r/Wordpresspost5/7/2025
tailwindcss-github-markdown – GitHub Markdown styling for TailwindCSS

tailwindcss-github-markdown – GitHub Markdown styling for TailwindCSS — I was frustrated with the default styles of tailwindcss/typography, so I created a plugin that ports GitHub's beautiful Markdown styling to Tailwind CSS. The plugin (\`tailwindcss-github-markdown\`)…

r/webdevpost5/7/2025
Wordpress Staging vs. LocalWP for website redesign

Wordpress Staging vs. LocalWP for website redesign — Hey everyone, I’m working on a full redesign and cleanup of an existing WordPress website, and I want to make sure the development process doesn’t hurt the site’s current SEO at all — both during deve…

r/Wordpresspost5/7/2025
Stylize Iubenda's legal documentation pages

Stylize Iubenda's legal documentation pages — So here is the default style from Iubenda, which, in my opinion, is not very good at all. https://preview.redd.it/zu7k8lyp5eze1.png?width=3688&format=png&auto=webp&s=61abff0980c19eb776e959fc3afcccc84…

r/web_designpost5/7/2025
CKA? Or EKS project?

CKA? Or EKS project? — Here's a bit of context as to why I feel like I need to get out of dodge ASAP... IT Management: "We need **more automation**! Nobody should be using User Data scripts." Me: \*Writes several Ansible…

r/DevOpspost5/7/2025
No one should suffer because we have trauma.

No one should suffer because we have trauma. — I see a lot of people accept harmful behavior, because their partner has past trauma, but in my opinion, that is wrong. I know I can come off as harsh sometimes, but we have to have honest conversatio…

r/attachment_theorypost5/26/2025
It’s frustrating how often I run into women with Avoidant tendencies.

It’s frustrating how often I run into women with Avoidant tendencies. — I’m at a point where I just end things early if I see too many Avoidant tendencies early, but it seems like women with Avoidant tendencies are drown to me more often than secure or anxious which I’d r…

r/attachment_theorypost6/15/2025
Thank you

Thank you — I'm in one of the healthiest relationships I've ever been in, and this subreddit—along with my therapist—has helped me in a big way. I still get triggered, but I'm better at self-soothing and have lea…

r/attachment_theorypost9/8/2025
Losing (F23, AA) my mind in my relationship with my (F22, DA) sister.

Losing (F23, AA) my mind in my relationship with my (F22, DA) sister. — We’ve had some real struggles, and I’m at a loss for what to do. I feel generally pretty secure outside of this one relationship, but recently it’s been making my AA flair up in my romantic partnersh…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylepost9/26/2025
I regressed so much this year

I regressed so much this year — This year has been brutal since the beginning. Every single aspect of my life increased my anxiety. Multiple health issues in the family, some of them still ongoing and very serious, financial concern…

r/AnxiousAttachmentpost9/27/2025
I don't want to cry all day and feel lonely anymore. I don't want to fear abandonment anymore. I want to improve myself.

I don't want to cry all day and feel lonely anymore. I don't want to fear abandonment anymore. I want to improve myself. — In 12th grade I became very close to a classmate of mine. Both of us bonded over shared trauma and basically became inseparable. We texted each other 24/7 and became very VERY affectionate which then …

r/AnxiousAttachmentpost9/29/2025
Success Story: FA/Disorganized Attachment Healing Roadmap, Resource Recommendations

Success Story: FA/Disorganized Attachment Healing Roadmap, Resource Recommendations — **Hello, fellow Fearful Avoidants! The below post has grown out of almost 3 years of research and healing this attachment style, which in my case was coupled with Relationship OCD (ROCD). ROCD is a vi…

r/attachment_theorypost10/23/2025
how to deal with an avoidant's freeze response in hard times?

how to deal with an avoidant's freeze response in hard times? — my partner is FA, I've known him for a long time. He has made a lot of effort and has changed for the better. He's the more secure one between the two of us honestly, and he's pretty good at fighting …

r/attachment_theorypost10/27/2025
For those hurting, advice for your 2026 and my story

For those hurting, advice for your 2026 and my story — Hello everyone, **Preface** I am an anxious attacher, so my experience by-and-large is with dismissive avoidants and fearful avoidants. It is not my intent to villainize these attachment styles; thi…

r/attachment_theorypost12/28/2025
A Splash of Cold-Water for you

A Splash of Cold-Water for you — **Background** Hey everyone, I'm a contributor to this subreddit, and spend time lurking from time to time. I'm quite familiar with every attachment style. I, myself, had to earn security from my ow…

r/attachment_theorypost2/2/2026
A letter to my fearful avoidant ex

A letter to my fearful avoidant ex — 31st December 2025 So here we are. Another night, another thought. It’s been nearly 25 days since Eddie left me. Recently, so many emotions have been running through my mind. I never thought I would…

r/HealMyAttachmentStylepost2/5/2026
How do I know if I've emotionally checked out or just a protesting behaviour?

How do I know if I've emotionally checked out or just a protesting behaviour? — I am at a point where I feel withdrawn and not want to talk to a close friend, after repeatedly being let down. "Let down" is probably too harsh. The cultivating event was when I reached out seeking s…

r/AnxiousAttachmentpost3/7/2026
Does anyone here consider cardio a form of meditation

Does anyone here consider cardio a form of meditation — When I start jogging or when I do cardio, it feels like meditation to me. My thoughts might start going rampant but then I have to focus on the present which is continuing to run while not getting tir…

r/Meditationpost3/7/2026
F**CKKKKKKKKK

F**CKKKKKKKKK — I don’t really have anywhere to say this, so I’m just putting it here. I was with someone for a long time who I truly believed was my person. From the beginning, there was just something about her th…

r/BreakUpspost3/8/2026
Does anybody else get upset that you were set up to fail. That you didn't even get the opportunity to start on the same foot as everybody else.

Does anybody else get upset that you were set up to fail. That you didn't even get the opportunity to start on the same foot as everybody else. — My brain structure is literally disfigured from trauma, I'm socially stunted, my physiological responses are wired for stress. I feel trapped, I know that these things can change and I can heal, but t…

r/CPTSDpost3/8/2026
My (28f) boyfriend (37m) drinks to excess nearly every weekend, am I selfish for wanting it to stop?

My (28f) boyfriend (37m) drinks to excess nearly every weekend, am I selfish for wanting it to stop? — Throwaway account. Please tell me if I am crazy for feeling this way. My boyfriend (37m) and I (28f) have what I consider to be a generally good relationship. We’ve had some issues in the past that we…

r/relationshipspost3/8/2026
Stuck In My Head After Affair

Stuck In My Head After Affair — So 3 years ago, I found through phone bills that my wife was texting a coworker more than anyone else. I confronted her as she had also been very distant. After trickle truthing she admitted to having…

r/survivinginfidelitypost3/8/2026
Y'all ever realize how narcissists create unconditional amounts of chaos and then blame everyone else for it?

Y'all ever realize how narcissists create unconditional amounts of chaos and then blame everyone else for it? — Like I can't be the only one. They're literally come in disrupt your entire day leave you in the aftermath of a tornadoes chaos and then look at you with this genuine look of concern and confusion as …

r/raisedbynarcissistspost3/8/2026
My boyfriend (M35) and I (F27) have not said i love you, over a year of dating

My boyfriend (M35) and I (F27) have not said i love you, over a year of dating — TLDR; My boyfriend (M35) and I (f27) have been together for over a year, he hasn’t said I love you despite having talked about marriage, kids, future together. In a conversation he said he was apprehe…

r/relationshipspost3/9/2026
I feel like no one talks about parental co-dependency…

I feel like no one talks about parental co-dependency… — My mother and I are thick as thieves and have been ever since I was born. I grew up in a household full of boys and men, my mother being the only consistent woman in my life. I had many ups and dow…

r/Codependencypost3/9/2026
AM silent treatment is HELL

AM silent treatment is HELL — For context- two days ago AM asked me (19F) and my sister (17F) why our cousin and our close friends are scared or intimidated by her. We started making fun of her for the things she used to do or say…

r/AsianParentStoriespost3/9/2026
Where to go from here

Where to go from here — Just to warn you, this is a long one... For context, my partner (F39) and I (M40) have been together for 17 years, have two kids together. This all started in early January but seems to have been goi…

r/survivinginfidelitypost3/10/2026
Nmom wants an invite to my wedding or she is going to divorce my dad

Nmom wants an invite to my wedding or she is going to divorce my dad — TLDR; Nmom wants an invite to my wedding. I don’t plan on it as she doesn’t support or respect my decision, and only wants to go because my dad plans on attending and she doesn’t want to have to put m…

r/raisedbynarcissistspost3/10/2026
Gray rocking for over a year has made me see how really crazy he is

Gray rocking for over a year has made me see how really crazy he is — I still have to stay in touch with my ex covert narcissist because we have a child together. On my end I keep things extremely civil, I only talk to him about things that I have to talk to him about r…

r/NarcissisticAbusepost3/10/2026
How to get rid of cuckold thoughts

How to get rid of cuckold thoughts — Embarrassing post, so throwaway account being used. I have OCD with very prominent intrusive thoughts. Recently, my girlfriend of over 3 years just cheated on me (snuck him into her room and had sex).…

r/selfhelppost3/11/2026
Running away from security

Running away from security — Hey everyone. How do you folks settle into dating a secure person? I notice that when I’ve dated an avoidant, I’m all over it, very obsessive and can’t stop thinking of them (that’s the attachment stu…

r/AnxiousAttachmentpost3/11/2026
No I don’t want to be a medical doctor

No I don’t want to be a medical doctor — I am 23 fucking years old, I do not want to be doctor. I NEVER wanted to be a fucking doctor. I am so sick of this. I feel like a failure. I applied to grad school for 2 years in a row and I haven’t g…

r/AsianParentStoriespost3/11/2026
OKAY LISTEN Y'ALL.

OKAY LISTEN Y'ALL. — I don't know which tag this would come under but I just have to say this because the amount of 'im gonna give up' , 'its not working' ' what am I doing wrong' posts am seeing is insaneee. First of all…

r/Manifestationpost3/11/2026
UPDATE: My (32f) fiancé (28m) repeatedly does not clean the house

UPDATE: My (32f) fiancé (28m) repeatedly does not clean the house — Hello lovely reddit. First relevant links. My first post I deleted (so you can peruse the comments if you are interested): [https://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/18yjl0g/my\_32f\_fianc%C3%…

r/relationshipspost3/12/2026
I (28F) care deeply about my fiancé (28M) but feel like the romantic connection has faded after years of imbalance. How do you know when it’s truly over?

I (28F) care deeply about my fiancé (28M) but feel like the romantic connection has faded after years of imbalance. How do you know when it’s truly over? — From a burner account. I’m looking for some perspective because I feel like I’m at the end of a long internal process and I don’t know if I’m being unfair or if this is just the reality of where my re…

r/relationshipspost3/12/2026
I hate everything

I hate everything — I got threatened with marriage because I seemed like I gained weight through video call. And because I had the audacity to wake up late. And my brother is a piece of shit that sees nothing wrong ever …

r/AsianParentStoriespost3/12/2026
Healing from perfectionism taught me that I’m not superhuman

Healing from perfectionism taught me that I’m not superhuman — I’m just a regular person and everyone else is just as ordinary as me. Sure, we all have our quirks and differences but you’re never the only one with them or unique. I am not loved based on my achie…

r/therapypost3/12/2026
27F discouraged by low income 27M

27F discouraged by low income 27M — Hear me out I know that sounds harsh. We are married with 2 kids and have been together since we were 18. We both work full time plus I have a successful side hustle. I just crunched the numbers and f…

r/relationshipspost3/13/2026
FAQ on emotional neglect - For anyone new to the subreddit or looking to better understand the fundamentals

Knowing that there's a physical reason for the confusion and lack of awareness makes it easier to accept. One feels like an outsider; the people around you seem to know how to be with each other. An…

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment6/26/2020
If you are new here..

I’ve read all Nevilles books several times over, but I’ll check out the lecture you’re referring to. About my successes, I manifested more money than I had ever seen before. Prior to that, I thought…

r/JosephMurphycomment9/18/2020
If you are new here..

>About my successes, I manifested more money than I had ever seen before. Prior to that, I thought I’d always be broke. I even had to take a screenshot of my bank balance to remind myself of that amaz…

r/JosephMurphycomment9/18/2020
FAQ on emotional neglect - For anyone new to the subreddit or looking to better understand the fundamentals

This was so helpful to me. I’d be interested to learn more about the potential effects of a parent who was always physically present, but whose emotional availability varied to extremes for the first …

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment10/28/2020
The NO BS Guide on Winning Your Ex Back!

Im struggling so hard with moving on, even though it wasnt my fault that we broke up. It feels awful

r/ExNoContactcomment5/13/2022
r/EmotionalNeglectcomment4/11/2023
The NO BS Guide on Winning Your Ex Back!

If you can't count on someone, then a secure person accepts it and moves on. If you're both at fault and want to reconcile, you reach out and have a talk and see if you're both willing to work on thin…

r/ExNoContactcomment5/6/2023
The NO BS Guide on Winning Your Ex Back!

I broke up but she didn't want to get back. It's my fault but she wasn't a Saint either. Immaturity on both ends. I have paid for my mistakes in heartache and tears. I hope you get the person who ch…

r/ExNoContactcomment7/19/2023
REMINDER: be kind to yourself. This is hard, and you’re handling it with grace and strength.

Hi! So one thing I can tell you from lots of therapy and recently spending time around her is I realized I had been only remembering her good qualities and putting her on a pedestal in my mind. When w…

r/Divorcecomment8/4/2023
FAQ on emotional neglect - For anyone new to the subreddit or looking to better understand the fundamentals

Thank you for sharing. I get this too, and until I read your comment I didn't understand why I was so upset over the "secretive" accusations...they don't even ask about the small things, so of course …

r/EmotionalNeglectcomment5/8/2024
Manifestation coaches have not refuted any anti-loa arguments

Just believing is one thing, subconscious faith towards your desire (not LOB particularly) is another thing. You lived your entire life based of your default beliefs without even knowing the Law. I sa…

r/JosephMurphycomment1/23/2025
My arguments against manifestation

No, mental thoughts do not become physical reality. That would be a world of chaos. *Repetitive* mental thoughts become beliefs, and beliefs do. And this can be layered. You can wake up and have a t…

r/JosephMurphycomment1/25/2025
Addressing Community Concerns: No Porn/Masturbation Addiction Posts and Self-Hate Posts + Revamped Subreddit Rules

I don't understand this. How can you decide to get better if you don't admit your faults in the first place?

r/DecidingToBeBettercomment2/25/2025
Victim Blaming will not be tolerated

Fair question - the way I see it, victim blaming = "this is actually your fault" but victim mentality = "the way you are approaching this/life is hurting you/holding you back" ~~~as long as the commen…

r/Codependencycomment3/19/2025
Before you make that post about some avoidant ex ask yourself……..

Yes, that's precisely my message! And that's why I started treating myself for my issues so aggressively since my late teens (now mid/late 20s). I didn't want to keep passing on the cycle, and this go…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/24/2025
Before you make that post about some avoidant ex ask yourself……..

It's not relevant what anyone is telling avoidants if you're not an avoidant... to think it is is slipping back into this competitive mentality where you're dissecting whose fault it is. It doesn't ma…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/25/2025
Post-quality time cool down? Is this a pattern for DAs?

I respect how politely you've addressed this. But please see the other perspective too: 1. Most people are told by their avoidantly attached partner that they're clingy when they're just trying to n…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/30/2025
Post-quality time cool down? Is this a pattern for DAs?

Yes this is my default mode. I need calm after engagement. Relaxation after stimulation. To unwind / recharge. The best thing an AP person can do is realise that other attachment styles don't need to…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/31/2025
The "and" theory...

It's nor your fault whatever you've been through, but reprogramming yourself is your responsibility! You are a shining light and I can't imagine how hard it is, but we'll done for starting the proces…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/4/2025
Even as an FA the one thing I'll never understand about avoidants is how they can hate someone they cared about a week ago.

I think what others are saying unless someone says I hate you, then it's based on your feelings. Feelings are 100% valid but not facts. I'm anxiously attached and felt many people have disliked me ov…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/18/2025
Even as an FA the one thing I'll never understand about avoidants is how they can hate someone they cared about a week ago.

You are correct. Your perception of love is warped. And thus it can be really hard finding it without accidentally finding yourself in shit relationships. As many have commented, avoidants typically …

r/attachment_theorycomment4/18/2025
Even as an FA the one thing I'll never understand about avoidants is how they can hate someone they cared about a week ago.

People say they don’t hate, but from my understanding some of them fault-find in order to deactivate? Sure it’s not as strong as ‘hate’ by any means, but it seems pretty… negative?

r/attachment_theorycomment4/20/2025
I got ghosted and I feel blindsided

Yeah. He realized it was too much for him and just dipped. I’m so sorry. This isn’t your fault at all, but I wouldn’t commit myself to someone I only hung out with for a week in person. I literally bl…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/21/2025
Other attachment styles

Oh believe me, I spend a lot of time talking to them. They only answer rarely. My latest thing is to take each part and work to understand wehre it's coming from, what it's movtivations are, how it …

r/attachment_theorycomment4/24/2025
Other attachment styles

Hmm. My experience so far is that I will use different attachment styles depending on circumstance. Most people I think have a default, e.g. A person who comes from a secure background will be willi…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/25/2025
What hurts a DA?

No, my statement has nothing to do with validation. I find when someone says 'that's invalidating', they haven't sat down and thought about what they're saying. And why would I need to constantly vali…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/25/2025
Other attachment styles

Ran into a good defn: Your attachment style is the default mode of operation when a relationship is under stress.

r/attachment_theorycomment4/27/2025
Business scaling up - what cloud provider should we use?

> Question: Does Symfony block concurrent requests by design No. PHP applications run concurrently on each child process of the php-fpm interpreter, starting with a request and ending with it - unles…

r/DevOpscomment5/2/2025
Should we use Grafana open source in a medium company

Yes, 4tb of metrics Prometheus can eat like peanuts, if you need fault tolerance,better look into Thanos or Mimir, vanilla Prometheus can handle it too, but it will be more manual work. Dashboards can…

r/DevOpscomment5/2/2025
What is k8s in bare metal?

Bare metal doesn't mean running the whole cluster on a single server, that wouldn't be fault tolerant. Generally you'll see it used to distinguish from running in the cloud (i.e. on premises). A more …

r/DevOpscomment5/3/2025
What is k8s in bare metal?

Bare metal refers to the layer below a hypervisor. Eg directly on a physical server. Useful for situations where you want to dedicate a piece of hardware to a task (usually super high performance data…

r/DevOpscomment5/4/2025
Any experience monitoring Redshift

Yep, Redshift observability is one of those things that should be easier, but ends up buried in system tables and tribal knowledge. Some practical tips that might help: 1. Build a lightweight monito…

r/DevOpscomment5/5/2025
What to do about poor performing team member that isn't contributing?

As an outsider it’s really not clear who or what is going wrong here… have priorities been made clear? have deadlines been agreed upon and then violated without explanation? are they a mature member o…

r/DevOpscomment5/7/2025
My current case study - Instagram Automation - is working! But how to make money?

Welcome to /r/Entrepreneur and thank you for the post, /u/Aggravating_Fault_22! Please make sure you read our [community rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/about/rules/) before participating…

r/Entrepreneurcomment5/7/2025
Fellow DAs, do you sometimes experience people taking it personally when you need space to be by yourself?

Secure here. I still do learn and learn to accept that a lot of people cant express themself and selfreflect. Long distance friend of mine and, probably DA, got into arguments with me via whatsapp. …

r/attachment_theorycomment5/10/2025
What hurts a DA?

This is beautiful to read. You describe it so well, what it is to heal this stuff. It doesn’t actually go away, we just learn how to navigate the default urges better. Glad for you that you’ve done …

r/attachment_theorycomment5/11/2025
Turns out I needed a "middleman" to have a successful relationship with a DA

Sorry if this is not the applause you may have expected; but to me a translation of your title is "Turns out DAs are DAs, and we need to bend over backwards to "make it work" with them, and that's ext…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/15/2025
What are the signs to spot a DA or FA in early talking stage?

100% agree. Having recently come out of a situationship with an avoidant, my main personal takeaways are: 1) ask them about past partners/relationships. Usually they have a string of them, and they al…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/20/2025
Do push/pull dynamics happen even when you’re not participating in them?

Avoidants can also be extremely resentful though? Which is common for people who don’t communicate well. Plus, If they’re on a fault-finding trip or a phase where they have one foot out the door, it’s…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/26/2025
No one should suffer because we have trauma.

My ex showed up as secure and available. He did all the right things up until literally hours before the abrupt ending. Then he unleashed the barrage of issues and fault finding on me. I was completel…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/27/2025
No one should suffer because we have trauma.

I’m not secure, but I’m working on it, and it was not entirely their fault.

r/attachment_theorycomment5/27/2025
Excessive Rumination

I was in a similar position, ruminating for more than a year excessively about a relatively short relationship, feeling guilty about not being understanding and patient enough. And that’s the point I …

r/attachment_theorycomment6/2/2025
No one should suffer because we have trauma.

I think it’s particularly harmful to people who identify as AP because there is this tendency to find fault within. The people pleasing is so strong that I feel it does more harm than good.

r/attachment_theorycomment6/2/2025
Excessive Rumination

I say this with kindness because reading through your posts, you remind me of me from 5-6 years ago. I think your feeling of shame is clouding your judgement a bit here. It sounds like you were just i…

r/attachment_theorycomment6/3/2025
Excessive Rumination

Congratulations on holding firm and not over-extending yourself! I know how hard it can be to not do that. In fact I've never really been able to prevent myself doing that. You have won a major victo…

r/attachment_theorycomment6/4/2025
Excessive Rumination

It isn’t. Avoidance, more so than AA, is deeply unconscious. Consciously, we want to show up for our partners and to be vulnerable, which makes it difficult to recognize the fact that we are distancin…

r/attachment_theorycomment6/5/2025
No one should suffer because we have trauma.

I definitely agree with this, however, as an AA it is useful to know about how FAs and DAs react and how to interact with them. This is for two reasons: first, no matter what I know in theory, as an A…

r/attachment_theorycomment6/5/2025
🛑STOP HIJACKING POSTS🛑

I am highly skeptical of people online armchair diagnosing anyone as a narcissist. 9/10 it just means "person that hurt me". It seems to be a way to write someone off and never have to understand thei…

r/AvoidantAttachmentcomment6/12/2025
What are the signs to spot a DA or FA in early talking stage?

This!  My ex was seemingly amazingly secure, caring and nice for half a year. Yeah there were minor red flags bit really minor, still would classify that as "almost secure". But after the first confli…

r/attachment_theorycomment6/30/2025
Think I found a secure woman, and almost immediately self-sabotaged.

This definitely feels familiar from times in my past as well. The problem is, when we are so inward looking, and introspective about things, while that carries some really strong benefits, it can also…

r/attachment_theorycomment7/4/2025