I am nervous when anyone gets too close, and often, love partners want me to be more intimate than I feel comfortable being. I find that others are reluctant to get as close as I would like. I often worry that my partner doesn't really love me or won't want to stay with me. I want to merge completely with another person, and this desire sometimes scares people away. Secure subjects describe highly positive interactions, characterized by happiness, friendship, and trust.
Avoidant subjects indicate a fear of closeness.
And Anxious subjects report a love life full of emotional extremes, obsessive preoccupation, sexual attraction, desire for union with the partner, and love at first sight. Among U.S. undergraduate women, an insecure attachment style is correlated with depression. I also think that these tendancies affect all relationships that you have, to some degree. And, well, I would guess that there are parallel female equivalents. The less dominant ones are followers, and in pathological situations, are ridiculed and taken advantage of.