This produces less stress for the animal than being left alone, though it may
create feelings of abandonment if done often.
Not exact matches
Getting mindfully and compassionately present with your
feelings takes away the aloneness
of self -
abandonment and
creates a sense
of inner - calm.
Followers
of attachment theory
feel that an underlying «fear
of abandonment» drives couples» conflicts, and the ultimate therapeutic goal is to
create a warm, empathic experience, at least partly to make up for what the client missed the first time around.
In working with couples, Jim added how the use
of alcohol and drugs
creates distance through secrecy and results in
feelings of betrayal and
abandonment in the relationship.
Those secret - keeping households that pretend all is well, when all obviously is not well are the ones (see Bradshaw, among others)-- the very same ones — that
create future substance abusers, addicts, overeaters, neurotics... They are the very same ones in which children agonize over what happened, and are unable to reconcile what they
feel is the
abandonment of themselves, and where they grapple around for reasons this all happened, sometimes
feeling themselves to blame.