EP 538: Understanding Avoidant Attachment: Myths, Origins, and Healing

Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice

Dr. Morgan Anderson

Mental Health, Relationships, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this episode of Let’s Get Vulnerable, we explore avoidant attachment style — breaking down where it comes from, common myths, and how it shows up in relationships.

Inside today’s episode:

Why avoidantly attached individuals often deeply care but suppress their emotions — and how childhood experiences shape this defense mechanism.
The truth behind the anxious-avoidant dynamic and how both attachment styles can work toward secure, healthy relationships.
Actionable steps to rewire emotional patterns, embrace vulnerability, and build secure, interdependent partnerships.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life.
0:22.3	Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing you
0:28.4	exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. You deserve to feel empowered,
0:34.8	secure, and love. Buckle up and let's get vulnerable.
0:41.9	Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast.
0:44.5	I'm your host, Dr. Morgan.
0:46.0	And today we're going to get into the avoidant attachment style and specifically some
0:51.6	of the myths about avoidant attachment.
0:58.2	And I know there are those of you with avoidant attachment style tendencies. Maybe you also have some anxious attachment or maybe you
1:04.7	are fully avoidantly attached and you haven't been really wanting to deal with it. And I just want you to know, that's okay.
1:12.9	This episode will be really helpful to you.
1:15.1	And even if you experience anxious attachment and you've been on the receiving end of avoidantly
1:21.5	attached strategies, this episode will also be helpful to you.
1:25.7	I think this is going to be beneficial if you have anyone in
1:29.2	your life that shows up with avoidant attachment and spoiler alert, you definitely do because
1:34.8	it's the fastest growing attachment style right now based on research. We see more and more and more
1:42.5	avoidant attachment popping up.
1:44.6	So it's a very helpful style to understand.
1:48.2	And I want to just get into it.
1:50.0	Let's go.
1:50.9	I think it's really easy to believe that avoidantly attached people just don't care.
1:58.4	It's really easy to label them as cold, distant, or even incapable of love,
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