@gothic.ledger: If you have been lying awake asking, "How can she walk away as if it meant nothing?" — this video is the answer. Not karma. Not a promise that she will come crawling back. Just what attachment research has actually documented, and what it means for you. Here is the part almost no one tells you: the psychological bill for avoidance does not arrive immediately. It arrives late. Studies following people through separation found that it was attachment AVOIDANCE — not attachment anxiety — that predicted greater distress four and a half years later. The person who fell apart openly recovered. The person who "moved on" instantly was still carrying it.