Quotes About Attachment

No,' he said, 'memory's a poor thing to have. It's your own real hair and mouth and arms and eyes and hands I want. I didn't know I could ever love anything so much.

There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?

Stop crying to the ocean, stop crying over me. Stop worrying over nothing, stop worrying over me. So it's been so long since you said, well I know what I want and what I want's right here with you.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.

I find I like it too much.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

No voy a enamorarme de ti, cariño. Me importas pero no te amo.

No voy a enamorarme de ti, cariño. No ocurrirá. Me importas pero no te amo

I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

You've been in my life for so long that I stopped thinking about you as someone who existed separately from me. You were just part of me. And then all these changes happened, and you decided to leave me, and I've been going crazy ever since.

I'm basically a guy," her friend Rachel had once said. I don't need emotional attachment. I just want to get off. Annie wanted to be a guy, too.

In families like Fred's, much of a child's identity and his illusions of safety depend on feeling enmeshed. He develops a need to be a part of other people and to have them be a part of him. He can't stand the thought of being cast out. This need for enmeshment carries right into adult relationships.

I'm almost sad for them. How they can't adjust to the fact that things have changed. That it's not going to be like it was. Just because you have something, just because you hold on tight, doesn't mean it will last. Sometimes you can only watch helplessly as it slips from your grasp. You say good-bye before your ready. You may even refuse to say good-bye at all. Still, it slips away

Emotional and physical isolation from attachment figures is inherently traumatizing for human beings, bringing with it a heightened sense, not simply of vulnerability and danger, but also of helplessness (Mikulincer, Shaver, & Pereg, 2003).

secure attachment bond is the "primary defense against trauma induced psychopathology

4. Attachment offers a secure base. Secure attachment also provides a secure base from which individuals can explore their universe and most adaptively respond to their environment. The presence of such a base encourages exploration and a cognitive openness to new information. It promotes the confidence necessary to risk, learn, and continually update models of self and the world.

Emotionally focused couple therapy (EFT) is a short-term, systematic, and tested intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure attachment bonds.

I don't know why she picked me, but she did and I'm not letting go.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

But it also seemed that every time I shared Edward's story with someone, his hold on me diminished a little. And I didn't want him to disappear from me; I had so little of him to hold on to.