Anxious Attachment

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Ok so Im taking a psych class right now and I learned about secure attachment vs. anxious attachment. When she described anxious attachement, the description fit me. So I looked it up and apparently I have an Anxious-preoccupied attachment problem. This basically means im clingy. I desire close relationships and I become overly dependent on the person. I practically cried last night cause I felt like I had no one to cling onto. I know I need to learn how to stand up on my own and I've been telling myself that for over 2 years now. But I just never seem to learn. Its always a problem, I drive people away. When they want to get more distant from me, I can never seem to accept that. Its diffcult to handle. I just keep moving from clinging from person to person. When i loose a person, I look for another. Im wondering how do i stop this endless cycle of attachment issues.

I cad an anxious attachment to my best friend, in 2007. It was horrible. I wanted to distance myself, but I couldn't. I'm over that, now. I feel much more liberated and free.

I'm so paranoid about developing any type of anxious attachment that I pull away from people to prevent it.

Had it occurred to you that part of what might be causing the anxious-attachment pattern might be the people to whom you're attaching?

I've even been aware of people who intentionally foster an anxious-attachment, all the better to reel you in when they need something.

Any time I develop an attachment, it is bopund to be anzious, because they are so rare....Things are very messy for me right now because I am anxiously attached to my ASish boyfriend...and it is possible that I might have just caused a lot of damage to our relationship by displaying my anxiety.

...um...it's not irreparable. Just act like you don't care for awhile, and he'll relax again.

Asish men really don't like, as you know, any displays of too much attachment.