How Your Childhood Affects Your Love Styles
The more affectionate your parents are, the more open you are in relationships.
It’s no doubt that our childhood shapes our love life and how we relate to others in adulthood.
The Still Face experiment proved that we were responsive to parents’ emotions and activity even as infants.
Suppose you grew up with unresponsive parents or parents who have an addiction and mental health problems. In that case, you may have issues with trusting others, opening up, and bonding — that’s why some people grow up disassociated and uncaring.
A child ignored and unappreciated grows up and behaves the only way it knows.
Based on childhood and experience with parents, there are three most popular love styles:
- Anxious attachment
- Avoidant attachment
- Secure attachment
Let’s learn more…
Anxious attachment style
If you have been dating someone who called you a hundred times a day, always asking if you loved them, always searching for different ways to gain your attention, you probably had to deal with someone with an anxious attachment style.
