Insecure bonding between a parent and child can have long-term repercussions in a child’s life as they turn into an adult.
It can of course also affect how adult children attract others for relationships and form those relationships. Insecure bonding can lead to codependency later in a person’s life, according to researcher Holly J Piper on her blog, who defines codependency as a psychological condition or a relationship in which a person is controlled or manipulated by another defined as the term Narcissist based from the Greek myth.”
She goes on to say that securely attached adults tend to have positive views of themselves, their partners and of themselves. Anxious-preoccupied adults seek high levels of intimacy, responsiveness and approval from partners and become overly dependent. These people often become codependency and often get in abusive relationships in which they dismiss the abuse because they are so dependent on the other person for the emotional nurturing they never got as a child, even though these partners are often emotionally unavailable like one or both of their parents or guardians.
