Reading and All That Jazz 5th Edition by Rita McCarthy ,Peter Mather

Exercise 2

(a) It appears that our adult styles of loving may be based on the style of attachment we established in infancy with our mother, father, or other primary caregiver.
(b) For example, people who are secure in their intimate relationships probably had a secure attachment to the parenting figure.
(c) However, people
who are clinging and dependent in their relationships may have had an "anxious/ambivalent" attachment, in which a parent's inconsistent responses made them unsure that their needs would be met.
(d) As adults they worry about whether their partners really love them and will stay with them.
(e) They tend to feel that others don't want to get as close as they do.
(f) They want to merge completely with another person, which sometimes scares others away.
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