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Opposites Attract? Anxious and Avoidant Toxic Bonds

The anxious and avoidant attachment styles could not be further apart in how they approach love, and yet they attract each other like a…

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Joe Gibson
Mar 08, 2025
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The anxious and avoidant attachment styles could not be further apart in how they approach love, and yet they attract each other like a moth to a flame.

In this case, it’s often the anxious individual who does the chasing, pulled towards the avoidant by an energetic pull as if they were the human version of a blac…

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