Your Attachment Style impacts your sex life — here’s what you can do about that.

Our attachment styles indicate how secure, anxious, or avoidant we feel around emotional intimacy in our relationships. This aspect of emotional intimacy and trust around closeness and vulnerability can’t help but impact how we experience sexual connection.

Some folks at Kourtney Kardashian’s lifestyle magazine Poosh reached out to interview me about how the various attachment styles can impact one’s sex life, and what can be done to strengthen sexual connection once those barriers to intimacy are identified.

To quote from the article: “‘Relationships and sex can be so complicated with so many misunderstandings. Understanding attachment styles sheds light on emotional triggers surrounding intimacy,’ says Dr. Jennifer Gunsaullus, Ph.D. ‘It can help couples avoid miscommunication and emotional hurt, enabling them to approach sex with greater presence, empathy, and understanding. Knowing how you and your partner respond to closeness and vulnerability allows for healthier and practical conversations about needs, desires, and boundaries.’”

Read the entire How Your Attachment Style Impacts Your Sex Life article here.

~Dr. Jenn Gunsaullus — Sociologist, Intimacy Speaker, & Relationship Coach