Since the 1950’s psychologists have understood that how we relate to others and form emotional relationships starts in our early childhood developmental years…

Compulsive caregivers deny their own needs and focus on the needs of others. They find themselves as adults continually caring for, and rescuing others around them.

If you have already read Attachment 1: The power of attachment styles in relationships, this article further talks specifically about anxious attachment.

As with all attachment styles, avoidant attachment tendencies are created in childhood. In childhood, the caregiver of an avoidant child was likely to have