Avoidant Attachment
Avoidant attachment is one of the attachment styles that babies form based on their parents actions and responses to them in their early part of infant-hood. If you want more info on the other attachment styles, I have a blog post breaking those down. For today, I’m just going to discuss how my attachment style has been wrecking havoc on my adulthood and how I’m deciding to deal with it. As a kid, I wasn’t much of a social butterfly, I’d just keep to myself and keep a very small number of friends. Socializing wasn’t my thing growing up and it still isn’t. I’m naturally a loner and enjoy being in my own head, probably more than I should. I grew up with two of my paternal aunts switching off raising me and one on my siblings. My relationship with my biological mom was pretty much non-existent and I didn’t care for a change in that at the time. I just grew up figuring, whatever my adulthood would entail wouldn’t be the journey she took or my dad. I was harsh, cold hearted, and closed mi