Dax Shepard

I came across adult attachment theory by chance.

When you learn to become a psychiatrist, psychologist, you know about childhood attachment.

But I didn't know that adults have attachment styles and that they attach.

During that time when we worked in attachment therapy with kids and their mothers, I loved it so much.

So I read everything that there was about it.

That's where I came across adult attachment.

There's the anxious, avoidant, insecure, and fearful avoidant.

And at the time, I was going through a breakup, and it explained so much.

It felt like a light bulb went in my head.

And like, wow, now I understand what went down in this relationship, why it didn't work out, and what also happened in other relationships.

And so basically...

So we really need to understand about these attachment styles.

Yeah.

Let's start with the children.

So with children, the way that it works, Balbi is the founder of attachment theory.

And he had this idea that wasn't prevalent at the time because Freud always thought that we attach to our mothers and fathers.

Freud blames the mother a lot.

We attach to the mother because she gives us sustenance and food.

And it's a byproduct of that.

But then Balbi, who actually worked with children because Freud didn't really work with children.