The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough Avoid Avoidance Avoidant Existence Fear Fearful Frightened Life Living Opportunities Possibilities Quality Of Life Retreat Risk Risky

The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship patterns in marriage. Holmes (1993) has described a pattern of 'phobic-counterphobic' marriage in which an ambivalently attached person will be attracted to an avoidant 'counter-phobic' spouse in a system of mutual defence against separation anxiety.

~ Jeremy Holmes

Jeremy Holmes Ambivalent Attachment Theory Avoidant Marriage Phobic Counterphobic Psychology Relatonships Separation Anxiety