#260: Can You Become Anxiously Attached from Dating an Avoidant Person? (Ask Steph)
On Attachment
Stephanie Rigg
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🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Is it possible to become anxiously attached as a result of dating someone with avoidant patterns? That's the listener question I'm answering in today's Ask Steph episode. We'll talk about how our patterns can arise in response to someone else's, while also acknowledging fundamental differences in how people with secure vs. insecure attachment styles tend to respond to dysfunctional behaviour.
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| 0:55.9 | In today's Ask Steff episode, I am answering the question of, is it possible to become |
| 1:01.9 | anxiously attached as a result of dating someone who is more avoidant? So this is a very, |
| 1:07.7 | very common experience that people will date someone who's avoidant, |
| 1:12.7 | experience a lot of anxiety, and then seek to discern, like, was everything that went down |
| 1:18.3 | there? Was that me or was that them? Or was it some other thing? Like, what just happened there? |
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