A recent article published by the American Bar Association (ABA) claims that many lawyers ultimately regret their career choice, seeing it as a “personal tragedy”.

While there are unhappy people in every profession, and lawyers are not the exception, Ho Wei Sim writes that it is sobering to look at the statistics measuring just how unhappy lawyers are. An often-cited Johns Hopkins University study of more than 100 occupations found that lawyers top the list for incidence of major depression, while the ABA reports that the rate of suicide among US lawyers is higher than among all other occupations. As many as a quarter of lawyers suffer from psychological distress, including anxiety, social alienation, isolation, and depression, while the rate of substance abuse among lawyers is double that of the US national average.

This week's guest is the awesome Wei Sim Ho - A Psychotherapist, based out of Dublin, Ireland. We speak with Wei Sim about Attachment theory in the context of heterosexual romantic relationships. We particularly focus on conflict in a relationship, and what happens when both parties in a partnership have either opposing or similar attachment styles.