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Hello, everyone. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for your wonderful support. It is so meaningful. It's so wonderful. And I'm going to continue this bonus episode about attachment and attachment issues. So if you haven't heard the other part of it, the first part, check it out. It was

released two weeks ago. And so here is the continuation. Now we're going to move into talking about

common attachment challenges for survivors.

So what we deal with when we've been misused, mistreated, abandoned, disappointed, betrayed,

is that we develop a fear of abandonment.

We develop anxious attachment.

So how does that show up? That shows up in intense worry that others will leave

and hypervigilance to relationship cues,

people pleasing, to keep others close.

Overinterpreting, if someone doesn't call you back

right away, misinterpreting, if they cancel plans and what that means. And that might mean for you

that they're done with everything. They're done with the relationship and you shouldn't have trusted

them. And then if you are nervous about that, you might behave in a way that actually

can cause the other person to move away from you, like repeatedly doubting their intentions,

or checking to make sure someone still cares, or being very worried about minor disagreements because you think that

means the end of things. So you might obsess about those moments and that's going to push people

at times to their brink and they're not going to have as much patience with you. And then it's

going to underscore this feeling you already have about life and about relationships,

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