Articles about Abandonment and Neglect

The ability to form attachments with other human beings is an essential skill that typically begins early in life. The...

Healing rejection and abandonment is possible through created community. Finding your tribe of supporters is a key way to start...

Emotional abandonment or neglect in a marriage can often result in the end of a relationship. When one or both...

Emotional abandonment is a hidden pain that many people carry but don’t realize how it affects them now. They may...

“I believe, in the fall, we shed like the trees.” This thought floated into my awareness of the moving pavement,...

Trauma rewires our brains. It turns on our fight/flight/freeze response. Our brains often struggle to recover from this. The human...

When Sally was eight, her father suddenly left her mother for another woman. Sally desperately loved her father, but he...

At some point in our lives, most of us have felt a fear of abandonment. In childhood, we may have...

The process of adopting a child is an experience unlike any other. You spend countless hours on home visits, paperwork,...

Sometimes relationships can be messy. Living in a post-Genesis 3 world, it’s natural to expect that every aspect of our...

Do you feel unable to focus on your relationship without being consumed by fear that your partner will leave you?...

“Are you there for me?” This is the question at the heart of relational conflict. Every close human relationship can...