Introduction -- Part One: Understanding your attachment needs. The problem beneath the problem -- Understanding attachment theory -- Identifying your attachment type -- Part Two: Understanding how you conflict-and how to repair. What is your negative cycle? -- Interrupting the negative cycle -- Preventing the negative cycle: the attachment-friendly enviornment -- Reaching and responding -- Repairing after a negative cycle -- Attachment injuries and repair -- Part Three: Real-world considerations. Workable intruders: mental disorders, trauma, and addictions -- The sex factor -- When you aren't seeing results -- Instead of this, do this -- Conclusion: Going forward in the world with secure love -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

"What does a healthy relationship look like? Create a lasting and loving attachment with the help of the expert couple's therapist behind the popular Instagram account @TheSecureRelationship." -- Publisher annotation

What does a healthy relationship look like? A good question, in theory, but expert couple's therapist Julie Menanno wants you to consider: what does a securely attached relationship feel like? The answer to this question is the ultimate goal in Secure Love, a groundbreaking guide to understanding secure attachment in adult relationships. While attachment theory has grown in popularity to explain the relationship between children and their caregivers, it's also the closest science has come to making sense of our adult romantic connections