The Economic Times

Psychology says many adults who keep everyone at a distance arent loners by nature, and whats hard is that they learned early that openness invited harm so they built a life that stays sealed off

Some adults seem comfortable keeping everyone at arm's length. But psychologists say distance is not always a personality trait. Emerging research suggests that for many people, it may be a coping strategy learned in childhood after vulnerability felt unsafe, making intimacy feel far more complicated in adulthood.