fear of abandonment
Dreading being left
A persistent anxiety about being left, rejected, or deserted by people one depends on emotionally.
The fear may stem from early experiences of loss or neglect and can drive clingy behavior, jealousy, or preemptive withdrawal from relationships: Her fear of abandonment made her read rejection into every unanswered text.
Common in attachment disorders and borderline personality disorder.
- separationState of being apart
- clingingGripping without release
- attachmentConnection or fondness
- attachment styleRelational connection tendency
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
fear of rejection · loneliness · insecurity · neediness · desperation · panic · anxiety · walking on eggshells · pleading · worthlessness · inner child · emotional baggage · empty · distrust · trust issues · smothering · jealousy · push and pull
- fearsspiders, snakes, falling, heights, death
- attachment issuesattachment disorder, anxious attachment, attachment issues, attachment anxiety, avoidant attachment
- Codependencycodependency, enabling, enmeshment, people-pleasing, caretaking
- insecuritiesinsecurity, self-doubt, low self-esteem, inadequacy, inferiority
- vulnerabilitiesvulnerability, insecurity, weakness, self-doubt, flaw
- personality disordersborderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, OCPD, personality disorders
fear of abandonmentavoidant attachment
Relational pattern fearing intimacy
self-sufficiency · non-attachment · self-reliance · individuation · differentiation
feared, fearing, fearful, fearfully, fearfulness, fearless, fearlessly, fearlessness, fearsome