Avoidant Attachment Books

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
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avg rating 4.36 — 997,392 ratings — published 2024
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,162 ratings — published 2010
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One Golden Summer One Golden Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.33 — 319,246 ratings — published 2025
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The Edge of Seventeen The Edge of Seventeen (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.18 — 67 ratings — published 2016
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3) Beg, Borrow, or Steal (When in Rome, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.03 — 105,559 ratings — published 2025
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Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4) Wild and Wrangled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #4)
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avg rating 3.96 — 93,017 ratings — published 2025
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Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3) Lost and Lassoed (Rebel Blue Ranch, #3)
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avg rating 4.20 — 136,923 ratings — published 2024
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Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2) Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2)
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avg rating 3.90 — 158,698 ratings — published 2024
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Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4) Reckless (Chestnut Springs, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.37 — 377,135 ratings — published 2023
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Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.30 — 769,164 ratings — published 2023
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Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1) Lovelight Farms (Lovelight, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.83 — 148,779 ratings — published 2021
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Love on the Brain Love on the Brain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.90 — 604,024 ratings — published 2022
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Credence Credence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.68 — 554,777 ratings — published 2020
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Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.21 — 112 ratings — published 1999
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Midnight Valentine Midnight Valentine (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.24 — 16,073 ratings — published 2018
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The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,901 ratings — published 2019
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Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair Attachment Disturbances in Adults: Treatment for Comprehensive Repair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.54 — 134 ratings — published 2016
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Fear of Intimacy Fear of Intimacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.23 — 177 ratings — published 1999
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Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role Rejected, Shamed, and Blamed: Help and Hope for Adults in the Family Scapegoat Role (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.35 — 443 ratings — published 2020
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Attachment Across the Lifecourse: A Brief Introduction Attachment Across the Lifecourse: A Brief Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.29 — 111 ratings — published 2011
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Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover)) Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books (Hardcover))
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.33 — 294 ratings — published 2010
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Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change Attachment in Adulthood: Structure, Dynamics, and Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 4.32 — 68 ratings — published 2007
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The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence The Other Side of Co-dependency The Flight from Intimacy: Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence The Other Side of Co-dependency (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as avoidant-attachment)
avg rating 3.94 — 156 ratings — published 2008
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“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”
Dr. Sandra Smith-Hanen, 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.”
Dr. Sandra Smith-Hanen, Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder

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