Welcome to On Attachment, a place to learn about how attachment shapes the way we experience dating, love and relationships.

I'm your host, relationship coach and attachment expert, Stephanie Rigg, and I'm really glad you're here.

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

Today's episode is going to be all about the anxious avoidant trap,

which is the situation that ensues when an anxious person and an avoidant person are in relationship with each other. Before we dive into that, I just wanted to announce and let you all know that

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Okay, so the anxious avoidant trap.

As I said, the anxious avoidant trap is a situation where you have a person with an anxious

attachment style in a relationship with someone with

an avoidant attachment style. I think in its most classical expression of the anxious

avoidant trap, we're probably talking about a dismissive avoidant, but equally some of the

things we're going to talk about today could

certainly be present between an anxious and a fearful avoidant person. So a super quick recap

to contextualize what we're talking about here, you've got an anxious person on the one hand who

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