Fearful-avoidant
High anxiety, high avoidance
Closeness is both wanted and frightening: you want to be near, but trust is hard. Relationships can feel like a swing between getting close and pulling away.
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Pure types are rare. This is how your answers came out.
What comes easily
- Feel deeply and understand other people’s pain
- Careful and attentive with people
- Aware of your reactions when you slow down
Where it gets harder
- Trust and stability in relationships
- Sending mixed signals to a partner
- Feeling unsafe in closeness
An attachment style is neither a diagnosis nor a sentence: it changes with experience and in good relationships. The test shows where you sit on two axes right now. The statements were written by our editors after the two-dimensional model of attachment; this is not the standardised ECR questionnaire and does not replace working with a psychologist.
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