Attachment Styles are not Death Sentences

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There is much said about attachment theory in modern discourse. The way we attach to caregivers in our early years certainly has important implications for our relational templates throughout our lives but they are not unchangeable. Yes, they are intractable, but many people fuse their attachment style to their identity. “It’s just who I am!“ Much of what we once thought were fixed personality traits are quite…