Relationship Configurations
Different attachment types tend to configure themselves into relationships in predictable ways.
- Secure types can handle both anxious and avoidant types in a relationship.
- Anxious and avoidants regularly end up in relationships with one another and less frequent with their own types.
- Anxious-avoidants only date each other or the least secure of the anxious types or avoidant types. These relationships are often very messy.
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