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The anxious partner gets mixed signals.
This behavior is toxic for the anxious partner, and consumes them in a tsunami of thoughts that all point to the same goal: how they can reestablish closeness with their partner.
So the anxious partner fills this space with text messages, phone calls, and everything they can to get the reassurance they need that for that brief moment their partner isn't there for them.
The anxious partner's belief that they want more intimacy than their partner is confirmed by a partner who avoids closeness.
Relationship break-ups were more likely when individuals felt they were receiving inadequate capitalization support from a socially anxious partner (i.e., moderation model).
In addition, the potential difference in childrearing attitudes between the anxious parent and the coparent may affect the similarity of their parenting roles for example, more stereotypic (and thus dissimilar) roles if the mother is the anxious partner.
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A number of studies show that anxious partners choose an avoidant, and avoidants are attracted to anxious partners.
In contrast, partners of people with greater social anxiety felt an abundance of received capitalization support following a laboratory interaction, suggesting an asymmetry in how socially anxious partners behave or are perceived.
In longitudinal analyses, individuals in romantic relationships with socially anxious partners who experienced inadequate capitalization support were more likely to terminate their relationship and report a decline in relationship quality six months later.
Given a high level of anxiety, such a parent may even undermine the parenting of the non-anxious partner instead of calmly discuss such differences in parenting approaches.
The attitude of the non-anxious partner on the coparental relationship may have similar positive or negative consequences for the other coparenting dimensions, such as the way disagreements are handled, conflicts are managed, and triadic family interactions are shaped.
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