You're listening to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience relationships

and where you'll gain the guidance, knowledge and practical tools to overcome insecurity and build healthy, thriving relationships.

I'm your host, Relationship Coach Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of On Attachment.

In today's episode, I'm going to be sharing five tips for supporting a fearful avoidant

partner.

So this episode has been much requested and has been a long time coming. I recorded a couple of episodes last year that were

how to support an anxious partner and how to support an avoidant partner. But I never quite got

around to doing a standalone episode for the fearful avoidant partner.

And I think it's fair to say that there are enough differences and points of distinction

between fearful avoidant and a more classic dismissive avoidant attachment,

that it's very much worthy of its own episode to dive into those.

So that's what we're going to be talking about today.

And I'll say at the outset that this is very personal because I am in relationship with someone

who has a fearful avoidant attachment style. So this is very much drawn from personal experience.

And I have run these five tips past my partner, Joel, and had his sign off.

So I've got my in-house consultant on fearful avoidant attachment.

So there you go.

You can know when you're listening to this that not only does it have that tick of approval,

but it's also very much coming from the perspective of me.

And in my relationship, having found ways to navigate and create

healthy, secure connection, despite those attachment fears, insecurities and what could be

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