This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Distress felt at physical or emotional separation from attachment figures.

Your high score on separation anxiety describes a marked difficulty tolerating distance or the absence of the people you are attached to: separation, even temporary and ordinary, can trigger real distress, catastrophic scenarios ('they won't come back', 'something happened to them'), a need for contact to reassure yourself. It matters to name what is at play — to weigh against your own experience: this anxiety is not a deliberate exaggeration or a whim, but the activation of an alarm system calibrated to detect the loss of the bond well before it is real. One way of reading it is that this system was often built from early experiences where the other's availability was uncertain or interrupted, which taught the mind that absence could mean danger. The good news, widely documented, is that this calibration is changeable: through repeated experiences of separations that go well (the other returns, the bond holds), the alarm gradually recalibrates toward more security. Fear is not a truth about the future: it is a memory of the past replaying itself.

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

A frequent need to be reassured about the solidity of the bond and the other's feelings.

Your high score on the need for reassurance describes a frequent request for proof of love, commitment and presence ('do you love me?', 'are we okay?', 'you won't leave?'). This need — to weigh against your experience — is understandable: it aims to soothe the anxiety of loss by getting confirmation that the bond holds. The trap, worth understanding, is that external reassurance brings real but brief relief, and does not treat the source of the anxiety: doubt returns, the need renews itself, sometimes exhaustingly for you and for the other. Worse, reassurance requests that are too frequent can end up wearing the partner out, which can seem to 'confirm' the initial fear. One way of reading it is that the point is not to suppress this need (legitimate) but to develop, alongside external reassurance, a capacity for self-reassurance: learning to reassure yourself, to tolerate doubt without immediately silencing it with a request. It is this shift — from soothing by the other toward an inner soothing too — that durably reduces anxious dependence.

This tendency is clear in you — here is what it reveals, to understand and move forward.

Extreme sensitivity to real or perceived signs of rejection, criticism or disinterest.

Your high score on sensitivity to rejection describes a tendency to perceive rejection, distancing or disinterest in ambiguous signals (a tone, a silence, an unanswered message, a mood) and to suffer from it intensely. This mechanism — to weigh against your experience — is closely tied to the fear of abandonment: a mind that dreads loss constantly scans for warning signs, and its alert threshold is so low that it often goes off by mistake. One way of reading it is that this hypersensitivity works as an interpretation bias: at equal intensity, a neutral signal will spontaneously be read as a rejection, which generates real pain for an often imaginary threat. The cost is twofold: the suffering itself, and the behaviours it triggers (withdrawal, reproach, reassurance-seeking) that can weigh on the relationship. It is important to stress that this hypersensitivity is not a character flaw: it develops from early relational experiences and remains changeable. Learning to generate alternative interpretations when faced with ambiguous signals is a powerful, well-documented lever.

This tendency is present in you — here is what it sheds light on.

Behaviours adopted to avoid the potential pain of abandonment (sabotage, withdrawal, excessive dependence).

Your moderate score on avoidance strategies describes protective behaviours you sometimes put in place so as not to (re)live the pain of abandonment: distancing first, testing the other, holding yourself back from getting too attached, or on the contrary clinging in a controlling way. These strategies — to weigh against your experience — are paradoxical: meant to protect you from abandonment, they can in fact summon it, by wearing out the bond or creating the distance they dread. One way of reading it, consistent with your profile, is that these avoidances are attempts to keep control over an unmanageable fear: if I leave first, I won't be left; if I test, I'll know where I stand; if I cling, I won't let them slip away. The moderate level suggests these strategies exist but do not dominate. Recognising them is precious, because they often sabotage what you are trying to protect. Gradually giving them up — daring to stay present and open despite the fear — is a step toward calmer bonds.