Avoidant Attachment Books
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by (shelved 2 times as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.36 — 997,392 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 2 times as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,162 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.33 — 319,246 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.18 — 67 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.03 — 105,559 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.96 — 93,017 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.20 — 136,923 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.90 — 158,698 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.37 — 377,135 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.30 — 769,164 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.83 — 148,779 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.90 — 604,024 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.68 — 554,777 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.21 — 112 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,073 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,901 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.54 — 134 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.23 — 177 ratings — published 1999

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.35 — 443 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.31 — 81 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.29 — 111 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.33 — 294 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.32 — 68 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.94 — 156 ratings — published 2008
“The problems arise when they become exhausted with their role of spouse or parent, and life involves more than work. AVPs put in huge efforts toward the tasks they do. They have very little energy left. Their families begin to feel the abandonment when ambivalence replaces the structure of rules or work. They can clean up the kitchen, help with homework, but the needed or intimate parts of relationships are more minimal. The other issue is often trying to hold the line, as it were. Many of the AVP’s psychological symptoms turn into health-related issues, which can further remove them”
― Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
― Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“AVPs will hold the spouse accountable for “wrong” action. This is true even if the spouse felt he or she was supporting the AVP. The AVP is hypersensitive. They do have a continued suspiciousness of others and what they might do to them. This, in turn, maintains a fairly consistent internal defensive posture.”
― Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
― Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder