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Due to advances in technology and transportation, long distance relationships are becoming more realistic, prevalent, and normative in society.

Several studies show that attachment styles influence overall success in long distance relationships.

Attachment styles are developed from our early relationships with caregivers. Based on how much love we received, how much care we received, and other factors, we develop an attachment style that is modifiable. Our attachment is what we project onto ambiguity in relationships.

The three main types include secure, anxious, and avoidant. Secure attachment means individuals assume they are worthy of love, open up more, ask for what they need, support others, assumes others like them, achieve and desire intimacy, and believe others can be trusted. Anxious attachment means individuals assume others will abandon them, they act clingy and overly self-sacrifice to accommodate others, and they dive into intimacy too rapidly. Avoidant attachment means individuals are afraid of abandonment so they react by keeping others at distance, they push away, eschew vulnerability, and leave relationships prematurely.

Secure individuals report more frequent use of conflict management and positivity, they also feel deal with distance better. Insecure attachment individuals are more anxious and become vulnerable to the negative effects of long-distance relationships; in long distance relationships they disclose to their partners less, idealize their partners more, and are less satisfied.

This article discusses how people in long-distance dating relationships may experience strain in their relationship with each other, their university, and affect their behaviors. For example, people in long distance dating relationships may increase alcohol use, be detached from their university commitments, etc.