Survivor Love Styles
How difficult life experiences may have shaped your relationships
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Always Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Life has taught you early that the people who are supposed to stay can just... leave 🚪. You learned that there's no such thing as permanence. You became incredibly self-reliant out of necessity, stepping up to fill gaps that missing adults left behind and developing strength 💪 most kids never had to find. But this came with a cost—you're always braced for loss
, even in your happiest moments. You hold back from getting too comfortable, too attached, too hopeful, because experience taught you that good things don't last. Deep down, there's a voice whispering that maybe you're just not the kind of person people stick around for.
Some of the life experiences that may contribute to developing this survivor style include:
- Being adopted
- Birth defects
- Chronic parental absence due to work
- Difficult or traumatic birth
- Long-distance deployed parent
- Mother’s death in childbirth
- One parent frequently absent
- Parent working long hours/multiple jobs
- Parental abandonment
- Parental alienation
- Parents with conflicting work schedules
- Work-addicted parent
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