Ms. Laura  Hello, I'm a woman in my mid-50s that recently began dating a man about 10 years older. I've been divorced for almost 20 years and have had a couple relationships ...

Still going through abandonment  My father molested/raped me for four years- from the age of 14 until the age of 18. I didn't tell anyone until my boyfriend Grant and I started going out ...

Mr.  a question. A daughter in her 40's, parents have been under her provision. Bought them a home, car, and now wants to get married, if she leaves, they can ...

Abandoned at Infancy and Childhood  I struggle with Jealousy in my marriage. In particular my wife's friendships with certain people and a particular man friend.

Recently, she said she ...

Fear of Abandonment = abandoned leading abandoned?  My ex-husband was both physically and verbally abusive. He often used the excuse that I wasn't in "love" with him for his anger towards me. I had accidentally ...

Fear of Abandonment - Ms. Houston  I think it makes it difficult. I say this because I make my relationship difficult due to my abandonment issues. I do this because I'm afraid to get ...

Fear of Abandonment - Daughter with Abandonment issues  My 17 year old looks for love (sex) with boys her age because she is lacking the involvement/love from her Father who gave me sole physical and legal custody ...

Fear of Abandonment - New to it all  I am currently in an amazing "real"ationship. I say real because she is the first person I have ever meet that treats me with respect and values me for ...

Fear of Abandonment - When Abandonment becomes a crutch.  I have a good friend and we share a duplex together. She has the downstairs apartment and I have the upstairs apartment. I helped my friend attain the ...

Fear of Abandonment Healing  I came to your site because my wife has abandonment issues. It is something very sad to me because she just can't see it, and refuses to see it even though ...

Claire  My boyfriend's father died when he was six and his mother wasn't there for him and remarried. My boyfriend did not get on with his stepfather and lived ...

Debbie   When life's puzzle is placed on the floor, one can begin to put it together to look within the picture. Then be
freed from abandonment. Even abandonment ...

Lonely with everyone in the room  As a child my parents maintained an abusive, volatile codependent relationship. I was beaten relentlessly by my father for the littelest of things and ...

Abandonment affecting my life.  i am actually the one that has a fear of abandonment, and that stems from when my father suddenly passed away when I was a teenager.

Finding him dead,...

Husband abondoned as child  I have been married to my husband for 11 years. We have two beautiful boys.

When my husband was five his parents divorced. His mother took him and his ...

Abandonment fears - Raising Grandson  I am a 53 year old grandmother, who along with my husband of 35 years, have been raising our grandson since he was 18 mos old. He is 12 now, but he,(I ...

The dilema...Dealing with Fear of Abandonment in Partners  It is not easy to live with a man that is very insecure. After I forgot to pack his tee-shirt for a trip, he is determined to push me away. He says that ...

my boyfriend has childhood abandonment issues  I am involved with a man who was abandoned when he was three years old. Both parents place the six kids in a group home. five was girls and one boy. During ...

Fear of Abandonment in Love Relationships/Confused in love relationships  Fear of Abandonment in Love Relationships

Hi, I am a 23 year old woman seeing exact same patterns in my relationships with men since my adolescent years....

i REALLY need help with this  okay basically when i was 6 was the first time my dad walked out i remember clearly running after him and begging him to stay and hug me! and i CLEARLY ...

My inability to be alone  I am now currently an 18 year old female. Growing up, I had a 20 something year old mother still stuck in her partying days. Always having to go to my ...

Fear of Abandonment for Partners - RMJ76  My wife ( then girlfriend with whom I was living) had spent several nights - not consecutively, away from my bed. A few times she would not come home ...

Fear of Abandonment Issues: My Father left when i was born.  When my mother found out that she was pregnant with me she had told my father. His first reaction was it wasn't his. He told many lies about my mother ...

Abandonment issues from an alchoholic dad  When I was young my parents divorced. My dads alcoholism became too aggressive for my mom and after struggling with it for five years, she finally divorced ...

Fear of losing my youngest son who really isn,t mine legally...  Hi my name is Lisa Hosler & I have fear of abandonment....I never thought I did ..When my husband & I were dating I would get so bad when he would go to ...

Fear of Abandonment - I'm the ex of someone with abandonment issues  I was recently dumped by a man with abandonment issues. His parents divorced when he was twelve. He was married and divorced at age 25 and 32. His mother ...

Mark D.  I have been married for almost 12 years. It was pretty good for the first 7 years or so. I then found out my wife was a compulsive lier. Still. I accepted ...

ann  Today I have been crying uncontrollably. The year has been full of stressors-seems like every two months. It has worn on me and brought up my most deepest ...

My 26 year-old daughter has abandoment issues  I have a 26 year-old daughter, and she has a 3 year-old son. We have a toxic relationship. I would like for her to move out; however, she is afraid to ...

FELT ABANDONMENT SINCE CHILDHOOD  I was born out of wedlock and me and my mom lived with my grandparents until I was a year old. Then my mom married my stepdad whom was a drunk. I moved ...

Fear of Abandonment - Is knowing enough? What else can I do?  I know that I have abandonment issues. My biological dad left when I was 3 and wasn't really a participant in my life from the start. I may have not ...

Fear of Abandonment Healing (Jeff continues)  Laura, thank you for such a nice response. What I mean is I have told her she struggles with these issues and she's says that she has dealt with them....

Fear of Abandonment Husbands' Fear  I am married to a man whose father walked out when he was 3, and remarried a woman with a boy the same age. The step son grew up in the home with a full ...