Connection

loving and being loved

Connection governs attachment and belonging: forming bonds, keeping them, losing them. These are the feelings of loving and being loved.

All six families pass through this need. Read the feelings below and you'll hear one question asked six ways: where do I stand with the people I love?

Bonds are load-bearing. Attachment research treats closeness as a biological need (Bowlby), and loss research maps what a broken bond does to a body (Worden). The heart level holds the feelings of holding on to people, and of losing them.

the feelings here