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However, Bowlby stressed the importance of real and ordinary experiences in shaping attachment representations, and suggested that change could also occur with ordinary experiences or normative events.
In this study, we examine the stability of adult attachment representations across two ordinary life events, the transition to marriage and becoming a parent.
Marriage and parenthood are common, not unexpected, and positive. Because both involve relationships that draw upon existing attachment representations and provide a wide range of secure base experiences, it was reasonable to expect that these transitions could be catalysts to change.
We examined the stability of attachment representations in 88 individuals across the transitions to marriage and parenthood.