Love Jones: Anxious & Avoidant Attachment Styles

About this episode

The episode discusses anxious and avoidant attachment styles and their impact on communication and relationships, using the movie Love Jones as a reference.

Three questions: do you know your attachment style, have you seen the movie Love Jones, AND have you ever been in a Love Jones type relationship? Nina and Darius had their ups and downs but the love story was epic. In this episode, join your two favorite black therapists as we talk about anxious and avoidant attachment styles and how it affects communication and relationships, pattern cycles, and how to recognize it and heal. 00:00 Intro 01:40 Overview of the attachment styles 05:44 Love Jones overview 08:00 Did Darius have anxious attachment? 13:55 Communication issues between attachment styles - -assumptions -keeping a back up roster -not showing all your cards -fantasizing about ex -not resolving issues -not having accountability -being reactive -having different emotional regulation and conflict styles 25:30 Why recognizing your attachment is so important & being attracted to a partner with different attachment 29:05 therapists thoughts on avoidant and anxious couple conflict resolution Follow us: Stay Mentally Dope (@staymentallydope) • Instagram photos and videosTikTok - Make Your Day FB:staymentallydope | FacebookMental health x Black culture Podcasts for womenmental…

People in this episode

Hosts: Charmaine Beasley, Jasmine Bishop

Topics covered

• attachment styles
• communication
• relationships
• mental health
• conflict resolution

Keywords

• attachment styles
• anxious attachment
• avoidant attachment
• Love Jones
• relationship dynamics
• communication issues
• mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Love Jones, Love Jones movie

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