However, if you experienced a chronic early threat, you may struggle to fully develop your sense of these energetic boundaries. As a result, you may become extremely sensitive to your surroundings. Sometimes, you can appear to be psychic and are able to energetically attune to others and the environment. Other times, you can feel swamped or invaded

People with anxious attachment try to merge with people they’re close to, building relationships of such closeness that their sense of self dissolves. Such intimacy soothes their fears of abandonment while making them vulnerable to an unhealthy friendship dynamic

M+A – Wants to both connect and dominate, to be both soft and hard, so has big mood swings as the felt sense of core comes and goes. This is the most problematic combination because the aggressive pattern attacks the merging pattern’s neediness. This combination is less common than any of the others.