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Search Results: feelings of abandonment
I am 29 and never had a relationship. Can you read and tell me your thoughts?
The fear of rejection and abandonment hasn’t kept me from opening my heart. My social anxiety and introversion hasn’t kept me from going out and meeting new people. Vocalizing my boundaries and needs has kept the wrong...
Jaminabelle070
Xper 5 Age: 34 How do you get over the fear of abandonment when you have no closure?
I developed abandonment issues from a relationship with my ex. Maybe there were other factors as well. I had dealt with death and the loss of my family structure during the recent years before I met him as well as during...
Anonymous
(25-29) Stop driving yourself crazy if you're not loved back genuinely !
It often looks like they're "just there" for the sake of it. They're half ass there or simply invisible most of the times! It can be friendship, relationship, a crush leading you on or a major issue with family. Your...
Elsa143
Explorer Age: 27 How do I distance myself from my ex without hurting his feelings?
My ex is going through a very tough time, right now. Like life-and-death kinds of things. And even though he broke my heart, he’s my best friend. Abandonment is the last thing he needs. But, I am struggling to get over...
grapefruit11
Xper 6 Age: 29 Dating people with BPD, the do's and don'ts #relatioships #bpd #mentalhealth
As a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), I noticed a lot of negative comments about BPD now fully disclosure before people say I have no idea what I'm talking about: I have had BPD most of my life, I'm...
nerdybutlazy
Xper 7 Age: 25 How to move on from someone who continually hurts you?
I know it’s a dumb question, but I’ve given this guy chance after chance. Every time he has this toxic friend around him, and he’s drunk (which is almost every night) then he doesn’t treat me nice. Last night he kicked me...
Anonymous
(45 Plus) Friend made me leave at 4 am, how do I confront him?
The weekend started off good enough.. it was my birthday. Everything was fine until his obnoxious friend drove us home. His friend was going to leave and he asks him to come in. Then he demands I go to bed. I was tired so...
Anonymous
(45 Plus) I Wish A Guy Would Reject Me This Way
A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.- Rihanna A Mohammed If you have ever dated, you’ve been on both ends of rejection. You have done the rejecting and been rejected. I’ve definitely had my fair share...
little_bird1
Guru Age: 37 The Many Masks of Emotional Pain... what they are and why we wear them
What is the cause of our most serious emotional pain? The following are only a few of the many ways we can be afflicted with emotional and/or psychological pain in our lives... 1) It can stem from a childhood, or early...
laurieluvsit
Master Age: 31 Am I asking too much of my boyfriend?
Due to these covid circumstances, I have not been able to see my boyfriend in almost two months, and it seems like it’s putting a strain on our relationship. I tend to second guess everything, and for past reasons I have...
Anonymous
(18-24) Why do I feel like everyone is against me and I don't matter?
Given the way of the world right now, everything that was 'normal' is now not. This is when it all started. I work in a hospital and my regular department has been reduced to skeleton staff, deploying the majority of...
Lavinnykins
Xper 7 Age: 31 My Mother Has a Victim Mentality. I Just Figured It Out
My mother is a very sweet woman. She turns 71 in a few days. I won't be able to see her for her birthday, because of the Covid quarantine, and I feel bad about that. And I didn't see her for Easter, though that one is not...
How to recover from a breakup
Beyond the tears and the pain, this difficult period in which we believe we are dying also helps us to grow. It sheds light on our capacities for resilience as well as on our ability to gradually find our autonomy. 1. A...
Anonymous
(30-35) The Woman who is Pregnant with Our Child Broke up with Me, and returned to an Ex, what am I to do? I want to reconcile. but how?
around Christmas time an ex reached out to me and poured her heart out and asked to get back together with me. I said no because I was with this other woman who was and still is pregnant with our child and we were working...
Colin93
Xper 3 Age: 33 What should I do? Is it even worth my time?
A guy that I had talked to in the past and connected with really heavy (just as this post states) just confessed his feelings for me and how he has always wanted me since he first started talking to me in 2017....
Anonymous
(25-29) Weird situation with a former mentor?
I will try to be as short as possible. We met more than two years ago through school, we spent time at school and work. It took us a long time to really get to know each other, we got a long great. We proved our loyalty...
Anonymous
(25-29) A different type of "growing pains"
It seems like no matter how hard I try to surpass youth and grow up whether it be reluctantly or with full acceptance & desire to want to - there's always something that pulls me back into a the fray of the teen against...
WhateverMayBeWillBe
Yoda Age: 37 Relationship anxiety, always think he’s cheating?
So yes I have trust issues, huge a fear of abandonment.. so my mind drives me up the wall with feeling paranoid that he’s cheating on me when we are not together. Deep down I know it’s not true but I was have those “what...
Anonymous
(30-35) Do you think Sylvia Plath had Borderline Personality Disorder?
A BPD diagnosis requires at least 5 of these 9 symptoms to be prevalent: 1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment; this does not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in criterion 5 2. A...
Be careful dishing out an unqualified diagnosis on your Ex and what Personality Disorder you "feel" they have. This is dangerous..
This is a response, (previously posted as guidance and subsequently blocked), to an individual, who posted a vindictive person's "false victimhood narrative" to explain why consecutive ex-girlfriends removed him from...
Grobmate
Explorer Age: 45 