Post by Helsbells on Jan 26, 2020 21:12:09 GMT
Not sure about other APs, but when my FA ex would rather stare into space while on dates with me, would only have sex only occasionally, would never hug me back when I hugged him, all after only six months of dating, my brain is going into a panic, telling me “this guy has no interest in you.” That’s when APs have have protesting behaviour — like confronting the FA/ DA, threatening to leave, manipulations, etc. APs aren’t trying to hurt their FA/ DAs, they just want reassurance that the FA/ DAs love them. It seems FAs and even secures might show this behaviour if too their partners are DA enough.
APs don’t jump from one person to the next because they never loved their exes, it is mainly because out of all the attachment types, they struggle the most without love. APs hurt the most and the longest when love is taken away. APs and Avoidants are both likely to cheat more than Secures, but APs are also likely to carry a torch for someone forever.
Maybe APS come on a spectrum, too. I have experienced these angry outbursts and proclamations of love after having met someone only two times. I kind of get wary because it makes me think if someone is like that already that early on, who will he be later in a relationship? Call me names or hit me if things don't go his way?
The manipulations and violent outbursts is just something that make me feel unsafe and makes it hard for me to trust them. My mother is AP-like sometimes as well and only after having read here I understood that her threatening to never see me again and saying hurtful things in anger is protest behavior. Before, that behavior combined with claiming to not feel like I trust her enough to tell her private things and wanting to feel closer was extremely puzzling to me and made no sense at all.
I'm not sure if APs hurt the most... DAs might be kind of numb but FAs feel everything that APs feel but retract instead of push forward. It's a very very lonely life without love and without intimacy and that's why they keep on trying again. I feel like APs can eventually succeed because they can keep on trying and because they can learn to keep their outbursts in check.
I am Fa but lean towards more anxious in relationships. I can do long term as I can keep my emotions in check most of the time. My last relationship with a fa leaning more on the Da side was not an experience I ever want to go through ever again. I have empathy for him but someone who at the age of 45 and keeps repeating his behaviour over and over again at the cost of others my empathy can only go so far. Hope your doing ok and send you my blessings x