EP 622: Fear of Abandonment: How Anxious, Avoidant, and Disorganized Attachment Show Up in Your Relationships
Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
Dr. Morgan Anderson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Fear of abandonment can quietly run your life, shaping how you think, how you react, and how safe you feel in your relationships. In today’s episode, we’re getting very real about what fear of abandonment actually looks like in adulthood and how it shows up differently depending on your attachment style. Whether you identify as anxious, avoidant, or disorganized, this episode will help you understand the roots of these patterns, why they feel so intense, and how they may be sabotaging your ability to experience deep, secure connection.
Inside the episode:
- How fear of abandonment develops and why it’s so closely tied to insecure attachment styles
- The key ways anxious, avoidant, and disorganized attachment express fear of abandonment in adult relationships
- Why this fear keeps you stuck in fight-or-flight—and what becomes possible when you begin healing it
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing |
| 0:27.6 | you exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. |
| 0:31.6 | You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and love. |
| 0:35.8 | Buckle up and let's get vulnerable. |
| 0:41.3 | Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | I'm your host, Dr. Morgan, and we have a very important topic today. |
| 0:48.9 | We will be talking about fear of abandonment. |
| 0:53.2 | And what does it look like when those fears become persistent? |
| 0:59.8 | And it's something that's showing up constantly for you in your life. And it's shaping your |
| 1:04.6 | thoughts and your behaviors and how you form relationships. We will get into this topic |
| 1:10.6 | in a very helpful way because we're |
| 1:13.0 | going to look at it from the lens of anxious attachment and avoidant attachment, and we'll |
| 1:19.6 | throw in disorganized as well. And we'll look at how this fear of abandonment shows up |
| 1:26.6 | differently based on your attachment style. So I'm |
| 1:30.9 | very excited about this episode. This is needed by pretty much everyone, whether it's something |
| 1:37.9 | that you've experienced from a partner that you've been with or it's something that you're going |
| 1:43.8 | through yourself. I know |
| 1:45.8 | that this episode will be really, really helpful to you. So let's talk about fear of abandonment. |
| 1:52.3 | And let's just be very honest. You know, this show is called Let's Get Vulnerable. Let's get into it. |
| 1:58.0 | Okay. I want you to ask yourself, do you ever feel like you're unimportant to people |
| 2:03.8 | or like everybody's leaving you behind like you're constantly being left out right the reality is is that |
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