Attachment History
Name: Date:
HDY seek comfort?
Childhood Attachment Relationships:
What was it like growing up in your family? Who did you feel closest to when you were young?
Who did you go to for comfort when you were scared or sad?
Could you always count on this person/these people for comfort?
When were you most likely to be comforted by this person/these people?
How did you let this person/these people know that you needed connection and comfort?
Did this person/these people ever betray you or were they unavailable at critical times?
What did you learn about comfort and connection from this person/these people?
If no one was safe, how did you comfort yourself? How did you learn that people were unsafe?
(Explore how numbing behaviors that make emotions inaccessible - substances and other addictive behaviors
(porn, videogames) are part of the neg. cycle.)Did you ever turn to alcohol, drugs, sex, or material things for
comfort?
Romantic Attachment Relationships:
HDY comfort yourself or soothe yourself when you are not at ease in your relationsip? Who, if anyone do
you reach to when you are in distress?
Have there been times when you have been able to be vulnerable and find comfort with your partner?
Have you ever felt physically or emotionally unsafe in your relationship? (If so, is there any physical violence
or abuse of any kind?
What were your previous relationships like? How did they end? Patterns or themes that recurred? Have
there been any particularly traumatic incidences in your previous romantic relationships?
How have you tried to find comfort in romantic relationships?
Is your relationship important to you? What keeps you in this relationship?
HDY feel about the quality of touch and physical intimacy in your relationship?
How is your sex life? How often do you have sex? Who initiates it?
Have you had any affairs? Does your partner know? Are you having one now?
Is there anyone else in your life now? Have you ever suspected that your partner was having an affair?
Is there anything I didn’t ask that you think I should know or that you want me to know?
©Ali Dubin, PsyD