ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an experiential felt sense of adult romantic love as an attachment bond, similar to the bond that exists between infant and parent. Threats to an attachment bond are viewed as the element that casts romantic love in peril. The chapter gives an overview of the impact of an attachment perspective on couple therapy, explore lived experiences of attachment theory and reviews the basic laws of human and love and bonding. Attachment theory is creating a paradigm shift in how couple therapy is conceptualised and in how it is done. The attachment perspective of adult romantic love is a bond similar to that which exists between infant and parent. The chapter concludes by examining common roadblocks for therapists seeking to internalise attachment theory as a guiding paradigm for couple therapy, since many therapists find this to be very challenging.
