Sentences with phrase «underlying fears of abandonment»

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Underlying sexual performance anxiety are fears of rejection, fears of not being attractive, fears of failing in romantic relationships, fears of infidelity, fear of losing physical and emotional connection with their partners, fears of abandonment etc..

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 addition, the underlying «self - structure» organization of the narcissistic and borderline personality organization is the same (Kernberg, 1975), involving the person's tremendous sense of core - self inadequacy and fears of abandonment.

Both personalities have an underlying «borderline» core of primal self - inadequacy and fear of abandonment (i.e., attachment expectations for self - and other - in - relationship), and both have narcissistic features of complete self - absorption.