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How your bond with your baby affects their adult relationships

Do you wonder how much your early relationship with your mother, or your primary caregiver in your early years affected you? Well, the answer is that it impacts your relationships even to date in terms of how we start them, keep them and even end them. We call it attachment; the early bond formed between a child and its parent. The attachment theory was developed by British psychoanalyst John Bowlby. 

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