What Maria Popova thinks about Attachment theory

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1. 26 Sept 2026

   Our readingEarly childhood contact with parents shapes a person's capacity for connection in all their later relationships.

   Their wordsthat our early limbic contact with our parents profoundly shapes our character, laying down the wiring for emotional habits and patterns of connecting that greatly influence what we bring to all subsequent relationships in life, either expanding or contracting our capacity for "positivity resonance" depending on how nurturing or toxic those formative relationships were.

   ↗How to Handle a Narcissistic and Abusive Parent: Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to Fatherthemarginalian.org 1st of 2 in this piece