4 Common Misconceptions About Avoidant Attachment

On Attachment

Stephanie Rigg

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this week's episode, I'm joined by my partner Joel and we're exploring some common misconceptions about avoidant attachment. Avoidant attachment is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented in a lot of online content, and it's so important to me to dispel some of those portrayals and offer something more humanising and more honest about what's going on for avoidant folks.We cover misconceptions around:avoidant people not wanting to be in relationshipsavoidant people only caring about the...

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0:00.0	You're listening to On attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience
0:09.9	relationships and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome
0:15.6	insecurity and build healthy thriving relationships.
0:20.1	I'm your host, relationship coach Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.
0:27.6	Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment. In today's episode,
0:32.4	we're talking all about some common
0:34.4	misconceptions about avoidant attachment. Now today's episode is a little bit
0:39.4	special because I'm recording live from Bangkok of all places and I'm joined by my partner Joel.
0:48.0	Hi Joel.
0:50.0	Hi, guys.
0:51.0	So it's a bit of a funny story. I'm going to expose how disorganized I am in telling the truth here, but we are on a holiday and I didn't get around to recording a podcast episode before I left.
1:04.8	So packed my podcast mic along with my laptop with a view to recording an episode for you
1:11.4	from our hotel in Bangkok and lo and behold
1:13.7	unbeknownst to us our hotel in Bangkok has a podcast recording studio which is
1:19.6	just extremely unlikely but very opportune so we are sitting here in a fully
1:24.7	fledged podcast recording studio in our hotel in Bangkok and we're going to be
1:29.7	talking all about some misconceptions about avoided attachment.
1:33.4	So as you would know, if you've been listening to the podcast for a while,
1:37.2	it's really important to me to rebalance the scales, I suppose, insofar as understanding,
1:44.8	avoidant attachment and extending a level of curiosity and
1:47.8	compassion to that experience.
1:49.3	Obviously, most of my work is around anxious attachment, but I think that it would be fair to say
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