Secure Love

What it is about

Julie Menanno explains attachment through recurring negative cycles rather than fixed partner labels. She shows how protest, withdrawal, criticism, pursuit, shutdown, and defensiveness protect vulnerable fears, then offers language for regulation, repair, and creating a more secure emotional bond. I keep it on this shelf because I want to treat love as a practice instead of a mood I hope will save me.

Why I keep it

Secure love, as a cycle you can interrupt.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · Relationships & Love