I was about to write a piece on relationships and attachments, but found everything I wanted to say in this excellent article on http://www.psychalive.org/where-relationship-patterns-come-from/. (Lightly edited.) In an ideal world, we would all be born with perfectly attuned parents who love us truly and are there for us whenever we need them, but who also give us just the right amount of space and independence to flourish and fully develop our unique selves. Parents would pr