Finding love is hard enough, but when you or your partner are healing from childhood abandonment issues, those early emotional scars can continue to create problems in your adult relationships if left unchecked. What Childhood Abandonment Looks Like Childhood abandonment is when a parent, legal guardian, or someone who is responsible for a child‘s well-being
If you find yourself dating a narcissist, there are some things you can do to deal with a narcissistic person. If you’re dating someone who seems to have many qualities of a narcissist, it can be difficult to know what to do in narcissistic relationships or how to deal with a narcissistic person. Narcissists can
Reverse psychology is when you do or say something but act like you try to convince someone that the opposite is true. It can be an effective tool for getting what you want, especially if your intentions are pretty straightforward. Reverse psychology has many different definitions and explanations. It’s not just something anyone can do
Ending a relationship sucks. You’ve invested time and energy into this person, and then they are gone, and that can leave a void in your life. When that happens because they leave you, that void can be a bit bigger, a lot deeper, and pulling yourself out of the intense gravitational pull from that void
Childhood Abandonment Issues and Your Love Life Managing your love life can be difficult, especially if you or your spouse have experienced childhood abandonment and have lasting scars from being abandoned by someone you trust. What Is Childhood Abandonment? Childhood abandonment refers to a parent or legal guardian physically or emotionally abandoning a child or
If you’ve always admired other peoples’ ability to be outgoing and confident, but never seemed to figure out how to cultivate those qualities in yourself, you’re not alone. Being shy is a pretty common problem, but most people don’t want to be known as the shy girl. The world seems made for extroverts, with the
Anxiety, as defined by the National Institute for Mental Health, is a chronic mental health disorder in which people display excessive worry about everyday things like work, their health, social interactions, and other activities of daily life. While it is normal for people to have some anxiety as circumstances change throughout life, feelings of uncontrollable
The American Academy of Psychiatry describes mental illnesses as “health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior.” A mental illness is also any condition that causes disordered thinking that leads to emotional distress. Thus, mental illness is a blanket term that refers to all kinds of mental health disorders that can interfere with an individual’s social, family, or working life…