Abandonment, whether in the sense that someone has gone from our lives leaving us behind, or in the sense that we are left with the feeling that, even in the presence of others, we are somehow unwanted or insufficiently loved, is always perceived as something traumatic and potentially damaging in the short and long term.
It is like a kind of threat that …
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