How do you balance your need for independence with a desire for companionship? I want both, but feel trapped/pressured when I’m with someone too far on the anxious side of the attachment styles.
I’m F, btw, so this often plays out the reverse of ‘typical gender roles’ in hetero relationships. Single now

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