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Wiseley is resolving the current published collection from the catalog.
Wiseley is resolving the current published collection from the catalog.
Compare perspectives on attachment, intimacy, partnership, and vulnerability.
Attached explains how adult attachment shapes romantic expectations, pursuit, withdrawal, and conflict. It asks how people can recognize their own and a partner’s needs, distinguish security from emotional volatility, communicate directly, and decide whether to repair, renegotiate, or leave a relationship. Its value is a practical framework for clearer choices and more secure bonds.
What keeps a marriage connected when conflict, unequal needs, and enduring differences cannot be eliminated? This summary presents Gottman’s research-based framework of friendship, positive regard, shared influence, repair, respectful acceptance, and shared meaning, then distills practical ways couples can understand and strengthen their relationship.