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Text 2: Childhood experiences and romantic relationships
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Researchers have attempted to investigate how personality and early childhood experiences affect our capacity for and success in romantic relationships. A study by Wang (1999) found that the way we were treated as babies determines how we behave in love relationships as adults. He identified three major types of emotional response to the relationship based on how the people in the relationship were treated in their emotionally formative years. The first type is a secure feeling experienced by lovers who received constant care from their mothers in their first three years of life. The second type of response is an anxious feeling about the relationship. Lovers whose mothers were sometimes available and responsive and sometimes not are inclined to feel anxious about their love relationship. The third type of response involves an attitude of avoidance towards the relationship. This type of response is predominant among lovers whose mothers were unresponsive and/or rejecting and who have had other unpleasant experiences within an unstable family.
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Researchers have attempted to investigate how personality and early childhood experiences affect our capacity for and success in romantic relationships. A study by Wang (1999) found that the way we were treated as babies determines how we behave in love relationships as adults. He identified three major types of emotional response to the relationship based on how the people in the relationship were treated in their emotionally formative years. The first type is a secure feeling experienced by lovers who received constant care from their mothers in their first three years of life. The second type of response is an anxious feeling about the relationship. Lovers whose mothers were sometimes available and responsive and sometimes not are inclined to feel anxious about their love relationship. The third type of response involves an attitude of avoidance towards the relationship. This type of response is predominant among lovers whose mothers were unresponsive and/or rejecting and who have had other unpleasant experiences within an unstable family.