CoolMyMind

What's My Attachment Style?

A short, non-diagnostic self-reflection quiz exploring how you tend to show up in close relationships — secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganized.

1. When a partner or close friend doesn't reply to a message for a while, you tend to...
2. When it comes to depending on other people, you...
3. During a conflict with someone close to you, your instinct is usually to...
4. Thinking about closeness in relationships generally, you'd say...
5. When someone you're close to is upset with you, you tend to...

Attachment theory, developed from decades of research on how early relationships shape our expectations of closeness, describes four broad patterns in how people tend to relate to others: secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized. Nobody fits one style perfectly or permanently — most people lean toward one pattern more with certain people, or under certain kinds of stress, and styles genuinely can shift with new experience (including a good relationship, or therapy).

Answer based on how you actually tend to respond, not how you wish you responded. There’s no “best” score to get — the point is noticing your own pattern clearly enough to work with it, if you want to.