All right, everybody, welcome back to the Man Talk Show.

Connor Beaten here.

Today, we're going to be talking about disorganized attachment.

This is going to be a full and robust guide to disorganized attachment.

I'm going to define it for you.

I'm going to tell you about how it gets formed, what actually creates that disorganized attachment. I'm going to define it for you. I'm going to tell you about how it gets

formed, what actually creates that disorganized attachment, how it shows up in your life or in your

partner's life or in somebody's life that you know. And then what do you do? How do you actually

begin to work with and move through your disorganized attachment style. Now, admittedly, this is

a challenging attachment style for a number of reasons, just as in the title, as in the name of it,

it's disorganized. The person really struggles to stay connected to any type of intimacy and relationship. There's a desire

and a fear of intimacy. There is a desire for closeness, but a fear of abandonment. So the way I like

to break it down is, I don't know how to be in relationship. That's the sort of

moniker or narrative going on inside of an individual with disorganized attachment. You could also

put on the sort of title of, I deeply crave intimacy and relationship, but I'm also

afraid of it and I don't know how to make it happen.

So for the disorganized person, there is one real big component that is different from almost

every other attachment style, whether it's avoidant, fearful, avoidant, anxious, et cetera, which is that

there is a kind of hypervigilance towards any small relational changes. Any changes within their

partner, any change within the relationship itself can send that disorganized person into a bit of a spiral,

a panic about the relationship being changed or that being a threat.

Because for the disorganized person, it's almost always the case that their disorganized

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