Attachment Based Relationship Tips
Looking to strengthen your relationship? Our blog offers expert relationship tips rooted in attachment theory and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Learn how to identify your attachment style, communicate more effectively, and foster emotional safety with your partner. From overcoming conflict to building deeper trust, our practical advice and tools, created by couples therapist Julie Menanno, are designed to help you move toward a secure and fulfilling connection. Dive in and start transforming your relationships today!
Attachment 101: The Course Every Relationship Needs
Your attachment style shapes how you love, fight, and connect. The Attachment 101 Course helps you understand your emotional patterns—and how to build secure bonds.
Attachment Needs & Fears
Every partner has attachment needs that support emotional safety. Learn how unmet needs and fears drive disconnection—and how to move back toward security.
4 Tips to Help Your Avoidant Partner Feel Safe
Avoidant attachment doesn’t mean your partner can’t connect. Learn four key ways to help them feel safe, successful, and emotionally understood.
How Do Different Attachment Styles Approach Making Sacrifices for the Good of the Relationship?
Anxious partners over-sacrifice. Avoidant partners resist change. Secure partners give for the greater good. Learn how attachment shapes relationship sacrifices.
A Secure Attachment Isn’t Bliss—It’s Safety
A secure relationship doesn’t feel like constant bliss. It feels safe. Valued. Trusted. Seen. This post explains what secure attachment really looks and feels like.
How to Set Gentle Boundaries With Your Partner
Setting boundaries in a loving relationship doesn’t mean shutting your partner out. It means protecting emotional safety while staying committed to connection.
Can You Lean Into Your Partner’s Emotions?
Leaning in—offering empathy even when you don’t agree—isn’t the whole relationship, but it is the beginning. Here’s why it matters and how to do it well.
How Personal Anxiety Can Impact Your Relationship
Trying to control your environment—like keeping a spotless house—can sometimes be a way to manage inner anxiety caused by relationship disconnection. But when that strategy backfires, it can create more of the very disconnection you’re trying to avoid. This post explores how personal anxiety shows up in relationships, and how couples can break the cycle.
Attachment-Friendly Boundaries Sound Like This
Secure relationships are built on mutual respect and emotional safety. These examples of attachment-friendly boundaries show how to protect connection while still speaking your truth.
What Is Vulnerability—and Why Does It Matter?
Vulnerability is the foundation of connection—and without it, relationships stay surface-level. But when you've learned to hide, overshare, or shut down, it can feel impossible to get it right. Here’s how to begin.
What to Do Instead
When your partner shares a concern, like spending habits, it can be tempting to shut down, deflect, or fight back. But emotional safety comes from staying engaged, validating each other, and communicating with clarity.
Do You Really Want to Be Agreed With? Or Do You Just Want to Feel Valued and Understood?
Constantly arguing over facts in your relationship? You may not be seeking agreement—you may be seeking emotional validation. Here’s how to tell the difference and reconnect.
Your Attachment Style Has So Much to Say…
Each attachment style holds a story—about fear, need, and connection. When we give those stories words, we begin the process of healing, connection, and secure attachment.
Your Partner Doesn’t Want Help With Their Feelings?
When your partner avoids emotional support, it can feel confusing and lonely. But it often stems from shame, fear, or past conditioning—not rejection. Learn five reasons this happens and how to respond with compassion.
Hope: 8 Ways to Grow Secure Attachment in Your Relationship
Secure attachment doesn’t just happen—it’s created moment by moment, through emotional safety, self-awareness, and commitment. Here are 8 hopeful and practical ways to build a stronger, more connected relationship.
How to Break Free from Negative Communication Cycles in Your Relationship
Negative communication cycles are the real enemy of relationships—not your partner. Learn how to identify, interrupt, and prevent them so you can strengthen your emotional connection and resolve conflicts more effectively.
Relationship Trigger Toolbox: Handle Emotional Reactions
Learn how to handle relationship triggers with self-reflection, regulation, empathy, and effective communication. Use the Relationship Trigger Tool-Box to break negative cycles and foster emotional safety in your relationship.
Old hurts can stall even the strongest couples. In this replay, Julie guides us through naming, feeling, and releasing relationship grief—so negative cycles lose their power and secure connection can finally take root.