I Have Issues With Abandonment

I've always known I have an abandonment problem. When my dad left me when I was 9 I promised myself I would never trust a man to love me and care for me again. I promised myself I wouldn't get hurt like that again. I remember the...

I am lonley, or uncomfortable being alone. Their was a time when being alone was intolerable to me....it's not quite that bad now....more or less just profoundly lonley. Once my marriage became more intolerable than my fear of...

It started since age 6, when my abusive birth-father came back. I didn't know he was so mean, when he was moving back in with my mother and siblings. And I didn't care to question why he was gone in the first place. I was just happy...

             Abandonment comes in many forms. Sometimes it was the parent ignoring the basic needs of the child, sometimes it was continual rejection of how the child felt and other times they were just plain never...

I do have abandonment issues. I have this deep fear that if I don't do exactly what my partner wants all the time, he/she will not stay with me. I tend to become a doormat for people I love. I'm a people-pleaser because I am so scared...

When I was a tiny tott, my mother once was getting us in her sedan, she first put my brother in leaving me at the grill standing on the curb. Rushing ever so frantically she, was flailing about ...trying to get his flintstone toes at...

My mom met me my dad online. They started dating and my mom moved to mississippi. They were dating for a couple months and oops my mom found out she was pregnant. Her and my dad got in a fight and my mom moved away. I first talked to my...

I grow up very far from life as a child I would always be trying to find a way  for anyone to say how good and well behaved child I was. cuz I couldn't wrap my brain around why my mom would always be leaving me. was I bad? she just...

1. to leave completely and finally; forsake utterly; desert: to abandon one's farm; to abandon a child; to abandon a sinking ship. 2. to...

When I was a tiny tott, my mother once was getting us in her sedan, she first put my brother in leaving me at the grill standing on the curb. Rushing ever so frantically she, was flailing about ...trying to get his flintstone toes at...

My heart and soul are filled with darkness and despair. My very special person that I have known online for 7 years has married. The board that we were on together has now closed. I will probably not hear from him anymore and that fills...

I'll wake-up scared, next to the almost-boyfriend, for fear that he'll leave. While i don't even have enough of a grip on life to make him my actual boyfriend, because i'm too scared that he'll leave. We had a dog together, That's when...

When someone takes an interest in me I am always amazed.  I worry that they are only spending time with me to see how far they can get with me.  Do they just want my secrets?  Will they lose interest?  Why are they paying attention...

As a child, I was deliberately left behind several times "to teach her to hurry up and get to the car on time".  One of those times we were at a job interview for Dad halfway across the country.  I came out of the hotel room after...

I WAS PUT IN A CHILDRENS HOME AT AGE 2 WITH MY FOUR SISTERS,I AM THE YOUNGEST.THE NAME OF THE HOME WAS INDIANA SOLDIERS AND SALIOR CHILDRENS HOME IN KNIGHTSTOWN ,INDIANA.ME AND MY SISTERS WERE SEPERATED.I HAVE ALWAYS FELT ALONE AND HAVE...

For along time I feel like I have been abandoned by people. It starts off with talking to someone back and forth for a while. Then it slows down and becomes hardly ever. Then it stops. I worry that it's me. Nobody likes me or wants to...

I guess it has started before I was even three. My biological father left my young teen mom and I. I have a great dad now! I wouldn't trade him for anything. But it still hurts that I wasn't good enough for the biological one to stay...

How an event that happened to me over 40 years ago affects me every moment of my life.

I have always felt alone. At 4 yrs of age, I can recall being left alone with a younger brother & cousin, somehow feeling a sense of responsibility as the eldest in the home. You see, my mom had been an honor student before becoming a...

When I was 15 years old I went to my friends house to stay the night. The next day when I called my parents to come get me they told me I was not allowed to come home. I was so confused. They packed all my stuff for me and dumped me off...