On the surface, someone with an avoidant attachment style may
On the surface, someone with an avoidant attachment style may have looked like "the perfect child" who never complained. Really, Morehead said, they just became used to never having their needs met. "They don't really want to trust others, they really don't want to depend on others," she said. "Their whole brain development is, I don't know how to regulate my emotions and no one else does. And so I'm just gonna keep to myself to stay out of the way." In adulthood, these people suppress or hide their feelings , "and really believe that they have to do their emotions alone," she said. So although they look like it's all fine on the outside, internally, "there's tremendous struggle." How to break the cycle Marko Geber/Getty Images