Problem: Apply which viewpoint you believe to explain how their early attachment experiences may affect their adult relationships. Note: There is no right or wrong answer. Just be clear in defining one viewpoint (continuous or discontinuous); then explain whether they have the same or different adolescent/emerging adult attachment with romantic partners as they did with their parents. Need Assignment Help?
If I describe someone I know who has struggled with insecure early parent-child attachment, I would say it is me. This has affected me throughout my teenage years and into adulthood. Sometimes, I still struggle with the trauma from my childhood. My early childhood was the happiest time of my life. Both my parents seemed happy, and we, their kids, felt like a happy family that would always be together. Things started to change when I turned 10. My mom and dad began to seem distant from each other. At 11, I started to feel that anxious-ambivalent attachment. Sometimes my mom was caring and supportive, but other times she seemed not to care, which left me feeling scared and stressed, thinking she was upset with me. I always wondered if I had done something wrong. When I was 13, my mom started coming home late from work, and we often heard arguments at home. Eventually, my parents stopped sleeping in the same room. I think they had serious talks because my dad began acting nicer to my mom and bought her jewelry. At the time, I did not understand, but now I realize he was trying to get her to stay. In the end, my mom left him and us to be with someone else. I loved my mom a lot and always wanted to be with her, but that is not how things turned out for me at 13.