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When people talk about daddy issues where the father has abandoned that child at an early age, what attachment
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style do you think those kind of people fit into? So they're either dismissing avoidant
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which means um they don't have any of the anxiety associated with relationships or they're fearful
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avoidant. So they they they avoid them because they're scared of being hurt. Do you think generally those people have
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a higher probability of being fearful avoidant? They certainly have a higher probability of having an insecure
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attachment style because as I mentioned in the first two years of life when your
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brain is growing the environment in which you're being cared for is going to shape that brain. That's going to impact
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how your brain grows particularly in that prefrontal cortex. So the bit right at the front here,
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okay, where all your social cognition is. And it's going to have less gray and white matter in that area. uh is going
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to have less density of neurons and less of a high level of neurochemistry which
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underpins social behavior. When you're an adult, you're just not as equipped to be good at relationships. You don't
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actually have the brain architecture to underpin it or indeed the neurochemical the baseline neurochemical levels
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circulating in their body which is going to motivate and reward them for starting
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relationships. So they just don't have the equipment that people who maybe grew up in a secure environment do. So that's
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one of the problems. And so when people say daddy issues, partly what they're talking about is attachment style.