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Why Past Abandonment Distorts Present Relationships

Every time my teenage son gets quiet I assume he is planning to leave me like my father did when I was fifteen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unhealed wounds from childhood abandonment create protective hypervigilance that can damage the very connections we most want to preserve.

Ideas that help explain it
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