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Insecure Attachment

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Attachment is a compassionate connection that a person forms between himself and another person. Not everybody creates the same types of attachments. The different types are insecure, secure, and Insecure ambivalent. Bases on the responses of my interviewee I can conclude that my interviewee creates secure attachments. There are several reasons that caused my interviewee to create secure relationships, for example when he was a child he was disciplined in order to create positive behavior. Positive discipline at a young age caused my interview to respect authority .My interviewee has been married for twenty seven years; he has shown he is able to maintain a long and stable relationship. His ability to keep a relationship alive for over twenty

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