The Love Lasts Blog
Dating and Relationship Blog: Advice That Lasts
Real talk about dating, attachment, breakups, and keeping the spark alive. Come for the advice, stay for the stories and the occasional uncomfortable truth, whether you're on a first date or your fiftieth anniversary. Written by the Love Lasts team, led by licensed counselor Gabrielle Friedman, MA, LPC.
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Types of Attachment Styles in Relationships
A plain-language look at attachment styles: how early bonds become adult patterns, and how secure and insecure styles differ.
Understanding Avoidant Attachment in Relationships
Avoidant attachment is a way of protecting yourself by keeping distance. Here is how it starts, how it shows up with a partner, and how to turn toward each other.
How Attachment Trauma Affects Intimate Relationships
Attachment trauma is a name for overwhelming experiences in the relationships that were supposed to keep you safe. This is education, not a diagnosis.
How Your Origin Story Shapes Your Relationships
Your origin story is the childhood pattern you bring into love. Seeing it clearly makes room for compassion instead of blame.
Dependency Myths: The Truth About Codependency and Relationships
Codependency myths, told without a diagnosis: need is not a flaw, independence is not maturity, and you can rely on someone without giving yourself away.
What Is Secure Attachment Style in Relationships?
Secure attachment is comfort with closeness and with being alone. You can build a more secure relationship even if that was not your childhood.
What Is Ambivalent Attachment?
Ambivalent attachment, also called anxious attachment, often comes from care that was warm one day and missing the next. Here is how that shows up, and how to stand up for what you need.
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