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Avoidance describes the proneness to feel fear and uneasiness regarding intimacy and to find it difficult to accept being dependent on others within an affective relationship.
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Lyanna Tran
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Encyclopedia of Nutritional Psychology. (2025). Attachment Avoidance. The Center for Nutritional Psychology.
https://dev.nutritional-psychology.org/encyclopedia/attachment-avoidance/
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