Emotional Availability: Openness, Responsiveness, and Intimate Connection
Emotional availability is the ability and willingness to recognize, express, receive, and respond to emotions within a close relationship.
Disorganized Attachment: Conflicting Fears of Closeness and Abandonment
Disorganized attachment is an insecure pattern involving both a desire for closeness and fear, mistrust, confusion, or withdrawal when intimacy develops.
Earned Secure Attachment: Developing Trust After Insecurity
Earned secure attachment is relationship security developed later in life through self-awareness, supportive relationships, emotional learning, and repeated experiences of trust.
Secure Attachment: Trust, Emotional Safety, and Healthy Intimacy
Secure attachment is a relationship pattern marked by trust, emotional closeness, healthy independence, reliable support, and open communication.
Attachment Avoidance: Emotional Distance and Fear of Intimacy
Attachment avoidance is a pattern of discomfort with emotional closeness, dependence, vulnerability, and support in intimate relationships.
Attachment Anxiety: Fear of Rejection and Abandonment in Relationships
Attachment anxiety is a pattern of relationship insecurity involving fear of rejection, abandonment, emotional distance, or loss of a partner’s affection.
Parallel Polyamory: Separate Relationships and Limited Metamour Contact
Parallel polyamory is a relationship style in which multiple consensual relationships remain largely separate, with limited or no direct interaction between metamours.
Anchor Partner: Emotional Stability and Commitment in Polyamory
An anchor partner is a dependable partner who provides emotional stability, continuity, or practical support without necessarily holding formal primary status.
New Relationship Energy: Early Romance, Attraction, and Emotional Intensity
New relationship energy is the intense excitement, attraction, optimism, and emotional focus that may occur during the early stage of a romantic or sexual relationship.
Compersion: Joy in a Partner’s Other Romantic or Sexual Connection
Compersion is a positive feeling about a partner’s happiness, affection, love, or sexual pleasure with another person, especially in polyamorous relationships.