Anxious/Ambivalent Disorder
Negative view of self & inflated view of others
a. Anxious/Ambivalent Disorder and Emotions
1. Overwhelmed by emotions.2. Overact – too much emotion. (You
can’t get upset, because I’m the one
with the problem.)
b. Anxious/Ambivalent Disorder and Intimacy
1. Moves toward you and against you at thesame time.
2. Questions your love, never satisfied. (I am
who I am based on my performance.)
An individual attachment style is comprised of decissions"I" have made about my world , myself and others. Those decissions that "I " have made and believe to be true explains my understanding of the priniples, the rules, an the emotions of my relationships. My actions reveal if I am operating the way I am designed to operate in love or why my actions don't work when I am operating fear.
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control."
2 Timothy 1:7 (AMP)
Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment Style NEGATIVE view of SELF /POSITIVE view of OTHER
Grass is greener on your side of the fence. “You are the smart one.” I am not.”