2 Life Path | What’s Your Attachment Style?
December 29, 2023
4 Life Path | What’s Your Attachment Style?
December 29, 20233 Life Path | What’s Your Attachment Style?
There’s a lot of conversation about Attachment Styles or Attachment Theory as we collectively evaluate our personal relationships.
Attachment styles are psychological frameworks that describe how individuals relate to others in close relationships, particularly in the context of emotional bonds.
The premise here is that we’re “hard-wired” or programmed in our earliest years as to how to engage in relationships.
Ultimately, each of us desires to love and be loved, to have our needs met, to trust our care providers, and to feel a stable and consistent sense of love and caring.
The early bonds between children and their caregivers sets the groundwork (like it or not!) for the way in which each and every one of us seek out romantic partnerships and it also shows up with friendships, family of origin dynamics, and work colleagues.
These styles are characterized by patterns of emotional and behavioral responses to attachment-related situations.
Psychologist Mary Ainsworth (and others) have conducted extensive research on attachment theory, leading to the identification of four main attachment styles.
Most of us fall more distinctly into one category and yet many can have more of a “hybrid” attachment style. Yet the four “official” attachment styles are a great place to start.
The 4 Attachment Styles
Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment
Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment
Fearful-Avoidant (Disorganized/Chaotic) Attachment
Secure Attachment
Attachment styles can develop early in life based on interactions with caregivers and later influence how individuals engage in adult relationships.
However, they are not fixed and can be modified or change over time through therapy, self-awareness, and new relationship experiences.
Understanding your attachment style and that of your partner can be valuable in improving communication and relationship dynamics.
Let’s break down how the 3 Life Path might engage or present with each Attachment Style.
**I’m not a licensed therapist and this article is meant to offer a numerological perspective that might shed light on the core issue each Life Path might have that within each described Attachment Style. It is not meant to diagnose or be prescriptive.
3 Life Path
Code Word: BLOCKED EXPRESSION
3 Life Path | Anxious-Preoccupied Attachment: People with anxious-preoccupied attachment styles often have a high need for emotional closeness and fear abandonment. They are inclined to worry about their relationships and may be excessively preoccupied with their partners. This attachment style can lead to clinginess, a fear of rejection, and a tendency to seek constant reassurance and validation.
This attachment style may present as someone who’s extremely emotionally sensitive to the point of being a slave to their emotional volatility. The 3 Life Path with an Anxious-Preoccupied attachment style loses themselves in their partner and often this attracts narcissistic partners. The 3 Life Path is innately empathic, yet this can careen into having or exerting zero boundaries (emotionally, physically, or energetically), leading to low self-esteem, an underlying sense of unworthiness, and an inability to speak up for themselves or even understand what they’re feeling or what they want.
3 Life Path | Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment: Individuals with dismissive-avoidant attachment styles often value their independence and self-sufficiency. They may downplay the importance of close relationships and may be uncomfortable with emotional intimacy. These individuals tend to be emotionally distant, self-reliant, and may have difficulty expressing their own feelings or empathizing with the emotions of others.
For the 3 Life Path, this attachment style may present as someone who expresses negatively or who is an emotional cyborg – divorced from their emotions (despite the fact that there are built-up emotions raging underneath it all). The Dismissive-Avoidant attachment style pushes the 3 Life Path to use relationships or engage with relationships on a very surface level. Because the 3 Life Path is so separated from their emotions (this stems from intense emotional trauma), the Dismissive-Avoidant attachment style proves to the 3 Life Path that others are unreliable and abusive. A shield is galvanized to protect the 3 Life Path from even more emotional abuse that they feel has been inflicted upon them early and often.
3 Life Path | Fearful-Avoidant (Disorganized/Chaotic) Attachment: This attachment style is characterized by a combination of anxious and avoidant traits. Individuals with a fearful-avoidant style want close relationships but also have a fear of being hurt or rejected. They may struggle with inconsistent behavior, vacillating between the desire for closeness and the need for distance. This attachment style can be rooted in past traumas or unresolved issues.
This attachment style may present as jumping head-first into relationships without vetting the potential relationship partner first. The 3 Life Path has a tendency for self-doubt and also is vastly intuitive, empathic, and an emotional sponge. The 3 is also quite impressionable, therefore can mutate their own identity. Therefore, the 3 Life Path can be extremely “hot and cold” when it comes to this attachment style. The 3 Life Path is a natural pleaser, yet on the other end of the spectrum, the negative expression of this trait is deception and manipulation. The 3 Life Path can be a master manipulator (think of infamous 3 Life Path’s Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Jeffrey Epstein as a few dramatic examples of this type of deceptive manipulation).
3 Life Path | Secure Attachment: Individuals with secure attachment styles tend to have a positive view of themselves and others. They are comfortable with intimacy, trust their partners, and believe that they can depend on others as well as be depended upon. They are able to express their emotions and needs openly and deal with conflict in a healthy manner. These individuals are generally more self-assured and less anxious or avoidant in their relationships.
This attachment looks like the healthiest and most dynamic version of the 3 Life Path! With a Secure attachment style, the 3 Life Path is actively expressive, dynamic, and uses their creativity on the daily. They’re impeccable with their words and use them to inspire, motivate, and uplift others. They are fun and fun-loving and have done a ton of work on themselves to heal their trauma. In relationships, they communicate their wants, needs, and issues in a healthy and supportive way. They’re always growing and evolving and they devote time and energy infusing that same energy into their relationships.
