LoveReport

The six dating patterns

Most of why it keeps going the way it does comes down to a pattern — a way your attachment system learned to reach for, or guard against, closeness. Here are the six. Find yours.

The Anxious Chaser

The chase isn't a choice — it's what your nervous system does when love feels uncertain. The same intensity that makes you…

The Cool Girl Protector

Cool Girl is the archetype that looks the most secure and is actually the most defended. She has the same nervous system as the…

The Fixer

The Fixer falls for potential, not people. She sees the partner he could become more clearly than the partner he is — and pays…

The Early Exclusive

By the third date you know. By the fifth you've stopped opening the apps. By the eighth you're describing him to friends as "my…

The High-Standards Avoider

She has standards — real ones — and she uses them as both a filter and a wall. The standards keep the wrong men out. They also…

The Unavailable Magnet

You don't keep ending up with unavailable men by accident. The selection function — what registers as "chemistry," what feels…

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