Abandonment issues quiz

Take this quick abandonment issues test to measure the degree of your fear of abandonment

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Hanan Parvez
MA Psychology
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Abandonment issues: Meaning and causes

People with abandonment issues fear losing their loved ones. This fear often stems from how they were treated by their parents in childhood. If one’s parents were accepting, responsive, and loving, they develop a strong sense of self and feel secure in relationships.

On the other hand, neglect, indifference, and unresponsiveness from parents leave children feeling insecure. This insecurity in a close and important relationship carries over into adulthood and negatively affects the person’s romantic relationships.

Abandonment issues may also be caused by traumatic events involving the loss of a loved one, such as death or divorce.1D’Rozario, A. B., & Pilkington, P. D. (2022). Parental separation or divorce and adulthood attachment: The mediating role of the Abandonment schema. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 29(2), 664-675.

People with abandonment issues are insecurely attached.2Fowler, C., & Dillow, M. R. (2011). Attachment dimensions and the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Communication Research Reports, 28(1), 16-26. It’s just a fancy way of saying that they’re anxious about losing their partners. This anxiety makes them behave in irrational ways to ‘preserve’ the relationship. Of course, these fear-based tactics backfire and ruin the relationship.

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