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Ep. 312: Inner Child Work with Terry Real

Women, Men & Relationships

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The Present Based Feeling of Abandonment

When your partner says, I don't need this shit and walks out of the room. That is a shaming move on your partners. You then react to the giant sucking sound of their leaving with a very young part of you that feels abandoned, desperate. A lot of reactive couples have an internal wound of abandonment that they're fighting. So you're feeling abandoned. Adults get left. Unless somebody drops you off on a desert island with no food, you're not abandoned, you're left. Children get abandoned. One means without you, I die. And that's the feeling. But that feeling of abandonment is not like, oh, I'm 42 and I'm being rejected. It's

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