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John Bowlby’s (1979) proposal that ‘attachment behavior is held to characterize human beings from the cradle to the grave’(p. 129) has spawned a large body of research applying principles of attachment theory to adult love relationships. A central and commendable goal of Shaver and Mikulincer’s target article was to provide a means of bridging the conceptual gap between two lines of research within the study of love relationships within adulthood–one using coded narratives to identify adults’ attachment representations with respect to childhood experience and the other using brief self-report instruments to assess adults’ styles of approaching romantic relationships. Shaver and Mikulincer have done an excellent job in elaborating the research on adult romantic attachment. It is notable, however, that they provided few direct comparisons of research findings using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and the …