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Anxious and Avoidant

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How Am I Supposed To Feel? What Am I Feeling?

How Am I Supposed To Feel? What Am I Feeling? — So I (26F) just got out of my first real relationship with someone (25F) who I really liked - the day it happened (a week ago from tomorrow) I was devastated and begged her to stay, and about the same…

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r/HealMyAttachmentStylepost12/28/2021
What hurts a DA?

Sorry, the more correct term is fearful avoidant leaning avoidant, and DA and FA are their own categories. However, there are a number of variations among FAs, including whether we lean anxious or avo…

r/attachment_theorycomment4/29/2025
Cannot stay attracted to dating app matches

God, I relate to this SO much. Meeting people in person leads to me idealizing that person but anytime I match with someone online, I get the ick and ghost (not proud of it but that's the truth). Do …

r/attachment_theorycomment4/29/2025
No one should suffer because we have trauma.

Yeah I tend to agree. Trying to pander to avoidants can be damaging. There needs to be give and take. If an avoidant needs some space to think, ok that's great, but agree when they re-engage in a few …

r/attachment_theorycomment5/26/2025
How to fix my own FA attachment (ideally without therapy)?

Childhood trauma doesn't always look like yelling or hitting; people mistake this a lot. You can have a lovely attentive parent who still didn't teach you emotional regulation, sent you in time out in…

r/attachment_theorycomment5/30/2025
It’s frustrating how often I run into women with Avoidant tendencies.

Anxious and avoidant can be a really beautiful match if BOTH people are willing to work on being more secure together. If she knows about AT, she may know she’s avoidant and want to work on it.

r/attachment_theorycomment6/15/2025
How much space do DA avoidants need when deactivating?

I agreed until the part where you said the choosing is just leading to superficial when I made a distinction between investment and interest. Investing to me includes being willing to do that work. Ch…

r/attachment_theorycomment7/8/2025
You know what sucks about being in the process of healing your attachment type? Dating someone who has no idea they have an insecure attachment and you're just wasting all that hard-earned security on someone who doesn't care

People who are securely attached are often more than their attachment style because their behavior isn’t constantly filtered through anxiety or emotional defense mechanisms. They’re not performing saf…

r/attachment_theorycomment7/12/2025
If I could just stop deactivating!! (FA)

You mentioned all of your other relationships were with avoidants and he is anxious attachment. Have you considered that being with someone anxious, who moves towards you when nervous, has encouraged …

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment8/4/2025
I had a breakthrough tonight!

Not OP but I had this experience. At first, it felt great because we had this never-ending cycle of both constantly giving and receiving reassurance on an endless loop. After a few months, I moved tow…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment9/20/2025
I broke no contact

>It’s also worth wondering WHY I want to even try to be friends in the first place. Must be an anxious thing Grief avoidance is common in both anxious and avoidant attachment systems. My advice, as …

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment10/16/2025
Do fearful avoidants "split" or "idealise" and then "devalue" when triggered? Or is it more likely to be a sign of something else? (Eg BPD/NPD?)

FA here it’s not splitting I think that’s for an actual mental health disorder or personality disorder. Let’s all be clear attachment styles are not disorders and they all can be changed with the prop…

r/attachment_theorycomment11/13/2025
Bi-Weekly Thread - Advice for Relationship/Friendship/Dating/Breakup

I'm in a miniature version of your dynamic with a guy who makes me feel on top of the world sometimes and forgotten about others. The hot and cold is exhausting and the good times are just enough to …

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment11/20/2025
Being DA but really wanting kids

I don’t know you, so this was a general statement. You speak from cognitive empathy, I speak from lived experience (anxious and avoidant, if that fact matters).

r/attachment_theorycomment11/26/2025
Bi-Weekly Thread - Advice for Relationship/Friendship/Dating/Breakup

Sorry to say but probably you will not become secure while dating insecure.. but this is me talking about my own experience ;). Try to find a way together and both work on attachment in therapy, than …

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment12/13/2025
How do you know what’s secure and what’s not in a partner?

I (49F) am a recovering anxiously attached person. I did a lot of work in therapy after my dismissive avoidant ex discarded me in a blindsided breakup. My goal was to heal so that I never, ever get in…

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment12/18/2025
Is it just me or is "date secure people" a bad idea?

I kinda hate it when dating secure people is presented as a way to "fix" insecure attachment. I get the logic but I feel like it's not fair to them nor is it their responsibility to help us heal. It'…

r/AvoidantAttachmentcomment1/8/2026
What did you notice changed when you began leaning secure?

My reply is a little darker, and it's that both anxious AND avoidant-coded behaviors started to irritate me when I encountered them in the wild. I would say that I am much tolerant of attachment anxi…

r/AvoidantAttachmentcomment1/8/2026
Trading book recommendation! For those trying to fix attachment issues.

Hi!! I highly recommend these: For core wounds and relationships : 📚Mathew Micheletti and 3 more The Inner Work of Relationships: An Invitation to Heal Your Inner Child and Create a Conscious R…

r/attachment_theorycomment1/27/2026
We live in a culture that glorifies self-sufficiency and punishes inter-dependence and needs. That impacts what we start labelling as anxious attachment, and how we are encouraged to heal.

Probably for a different thread, but check this.. AP = always moves toward the other in relationship FA = yo-yo - hot / cold. Oscillates between anxious and avoidant. AP chases. FA runs, then comes …

r/AnxiousAttachmentcomment2/9/2026
Trading book recommendation! For those trying to fix attachment issues.

Hi I previously recommended these to someone so will copy and paste it here Book on understanding and healing trauma : 📚The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma…

r/attachment_theorycomment3/2/2026
Input wanted — avoidants, what has helped you heal?

I identify as a fearful-avoidant. I’m still on a healing journey and still have strong avoidant tendencies when it comes to romantic intimacy that I am working on, and I have a tendency to abandon mys…

r/AvoidantAttachmentcomment3/4/2026
Difference between not interested and a fearful avoidant attachment

So I am an FA myself. FA shows both anxious and avoidant characteristics. I'm going to assume that you're speaking of a partner/ex- partner, not like a new fling. If I'm not interested in someone, I d…

r/ExNoContactcomment3/12/2026
How to deal with an avoidant person

Oh boy, you're an anxious. I'd recommend you to RUN. cause anxious and avoidant are a match made in hell. But if you don't wanna break the connection, I'd say just have boundaries.

r/HealMyAttachmentStylecomment3/15/2026
About no contact.

Well that's where attachment styles and trauma matter, a secure person knows why they are breaking up and will move on instantly, if a secure person comes back then probably yeah, its for attention, a…

r/ExNoContactcomment3/21/2026
I told my wife, 26F, that our baby is mine and that I 25F, did not consider her the other parent. But I don't know if that was a good call?

I would also like to add, that while what you said was hurtful, I don't think it's equally hurtful to the way you've been treated. People come down on the original poster hard without doing a lot of c…

r/relationship_advicecomment4/5/2026
Insecure attachment is a coping mechanism/obsession, not love.

Yup. I have Anxious and Avoidant tendencies but mainly Anxious traits. Sure there are nuances. But overall I guess what he was trying to explain is how this mimics an addictive/obsessive pattern.

r/Codependencycomment4/5/2026
Spent most of my life (31 years) in fawn-mode and now, at 35, I'm totally burned out on human relationships

Whoa, OP reading this sent chills down my spine! I also just got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease (Type 1 diabetes with absolutely no family history) a few months ago and I've been seeing a ther…

r/CPTSDcomment4/6/2026
I became a flying monkey

You're welcome, bear with , this is a little long. I still don't think you're a fool. You were manipulated, People like us can't fathom how evil other people can truly be. Once I started going to the…

r/NarcissisticAbusecomment4/6/2026
Intimacy problems,can you relate?

Not my words; from the Book “Ghosting” It would actually be best for an anxiously attached person to say no to a partner with an avoidant style. Just as nobody would wave at an occupied taxi,” advis…

r/CPTSDcomment4/9/2026
Let avoidants heal themselves before they destroy you.

anxious and avoidant are both destructive. the goal is to become secure !!

r/ExNoContactcomment4/10/2026
Does she think about me a lot like i do?

Yeah that sounds like it sucks for sure. The just being around each other part hits. We’d be together and she’d just zone out and stare into space. I’d ask if everything is okay/how she’s feeling and …

r/BreakUpscomment4/10/2026
Sticky Thread Until Reddit Fixes Their Shit - April-ish

This doesn't read as anxiously attached to me, it reads as fearful-avoidant - both anxious and avoidant at the same time.

r/datingoverthirtycomment4/11/2026