Social Support
A subjective emotional state characterized by feelings of isolation, emptiness, and a lack of social connection.
What is Loneliness?
What is Attachment Style?
This love language is characterized by sharing a meal, spending time together, and being present with your loved ones.
What is Quality Time?
A skill that replaces each of the four horsemen, helping to resolve conflict and encourage positive feelings.
What is an 'antidote'?
If you have an anxious or avoidant attachment style, this involves taking small steps using secure attachment styles.
What is 'act opposite to your (attachment) style'?
The opposite of loneliness; an affinity for a place or situation.
What is Belonging?
What is Secure Attachment?
This love language is characterized by giving gifts, creating or crafting gifts, picking flowers, and other thoughtful surprises.
What are Gifts?
The horseman that is cured by the self-soothing antidote.
What is 'Stonewalling'?
Learning to express and tolerate your emotions, making you better able to accept and empathize with other's emotions, decreasing reactivity and increasing attachment security.
What is 'increase your emotional awareness'?
These include improved physical health, greater resilience to stress, improved self-esteem, feelings of security, improved mental well-being, and greater life satisfaction.
What are benefits of Social Support?
This umbrella term refers to individual attachment styles that include feelings of incompleteness without their loved one, the tendency to come across as aloof, and contradictory behavior.
What is Insecure Attachment?
This love language is characterized by completing chores, making food, or surprising a loved one by doing something to make their day easier.
What are Acts of Service?
This antidote is characterized by dealing with problems in a calm and gentle way. Focus on the problem, not the person!
What is a 'Gentle Startup'?
Surrounding yourself with people who express secure attachment, to improve your own understanding and expression of secure attachment style.
What is 'seek out others with healthy relationships'?
This type of social support is characterized by help with practical problems, such as financial assistance.
What is Tangible Support?
Characterized by a tendency to avoid intimacy, vulnerability, and commitment in relationships, including rigid social skills, discomfort with emotions, and difficulty expressing wants and needs.
What is Avoidant Attachment?
This love language is characterizes by holding hands, cuddling, or hugging a loved one.
What is Physical Touch?
This horseman's behavior includes putdowns, insults, mocking, and acting superior.
What is 'Contempt'?
A relationship maintenance behavior that involves tackling challenges together as a team to strengthen the relationship.
What is 'Task-Sharing'?
A common way for individuals to engage larger social supports, including attending hobby groups, volunteering, or participating in religious groups. A way to meet like-minded people.
What is increase community involvement?
Characterized by contradictory, inconsistent behavior driven by the simultaneous desire and distrust of a loved one, including difficulty maintaining relationships and health boundaries.
What is Fearful Attachment?
This love language is characterized by stating your feelings, giving encouragement and compliments, sharing positivity.
What are Words of Affirmation?
This is the antidote to behaviors of deflecting responsibility for your own mistakes and behaviors, and refusing to accept feedback.
What is 'Take Responsibility'?
Critical thinking about early relationships can uncover beliefs about relationships that are not helpful in creating and maintaining secure relationships.
What is 'examine your beliefs about relationships'?