The consequences? These people unconsciously hinder their own development, miss opportunities, and are convinced they don’t deserve success. Letting go presents a real challenge in their romantic or platonic relationships: How can they open up to others when their most important people have abandoned them?
Attachment as a source of anxiety: a complex emotion that needs to be tamed.
Feeling affection can be as confusing as understanding a melody you’ve never heard before. People who experienced emotional neglect in childhood often perceive tenderness as a threat rather than a comfort. They question the sincerity of expressions of affection and fear betrayal or rejection.
This fear often leads to two contradictory attitudes: either a desperate striving for emotional closeness or a systematic withdrawal from intimacy. A painful dilemma: the longing for connection and simultaneously the reluctance to accept it.
Communicating one’s own expectations: a risky undertaking
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