Relational
What if attachment isn't weakness, but the whole point?
Western culture treats needing people as a flaw. "Don't be needy." "Stand on your own two feet." But attachment science says the opposite: humans are literally wired to depend on each other. The question isn't whether you need people. It's whether you can admit it.
Nurturance is a skill, not an instinct.— Nora Samaran
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Writer on Care & Attachment
Nora Samaran is a writer and community organizer whose book Turn This World Inside Out explores how attachment theory can reshape masculinity, relationships, and social justice.
Based on Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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