12. nov. 2008

The Mystery Behind Love-Hate Relationships

“Those low in self-esteem are chronically concerned about whether or not their close relationship partners will or will not accept them,” Clark said. “In good times, those low in self-esteem tend to idealize partners, rendering those partners safe for approach and likely to reflect positively upon them. At the first sign of a partner not being perfect, however, they switch to focusing on all possible negatives about the partner so as to justify withdrawing from that partner and not risking vulnerability.”

From Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90: 652-665 (May 2006), Margaret Clark

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