Tag: abandonment

We have all been abandoned in our lives. Whether it was through our parents’ divorce, death of a parent, or a previous spouse leaving us, as human beings we are all familiar with the feeling. Sometimes we don’t know where to go or what to do. We feel the earth has been pulled out from under us and we are dangling in space without an anchor.

The sadness and fear can be so overwhelming that we are at risk of falling into a depression. Some say that it is our perceptions of a situation that create the feeling of abandonment. If a parent dies in a car wreck they did not crash intentionally, it was an accident, but the emotions immediately interprets the incident as abandonment.