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- From: kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.J. Cater )
- Subject: HELP!!!Chronic Fear of Abandonment
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:57:54 GMT
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- This is my first post, but I am in dire need of help and advice
- concerning a problem that has surfaced recently. Please send all
- replies via e-mail if possible to my address:
- "kjc7435@ritvax.isc.rit.edu" . Any replies will be gratefully
- appreciated, regardless of sexual orientation.
-
- To explain:
- I am a 21 year old lesbian, comfortable with my preference, with a
- loving and supportive family. I have been in two major relationships
- with women, and it has come to my attention through the ending of the
- last relationship (which lasted most of June 1992) that I have a chronic
- fear of being abandoned by any woman who I love/feel close emotionally
- to. This fear is showing as intense panic and emotionalism whenever a
- woman cannot give me a time. date, and place (exactly) where we are next
- going to meet, and this is scaring women away from me. i feel that if I
- do not deal with this problem now, it will continue to doom my future
- relationships, and as I don't want that happening, I need advice.
-
- I think these fears are deeply rooted in my first relationship. To make
- a long story short, my ex (my first lesbian partner) and I lived
- together in her parents home for one year (Jan.1990-91). her parents
- were extremely homophobic; after various emotional blackmail and
- threats, they kicked us out of the house due to our sexuality, and we
- ended up living in a homeless shelter on the other side of town. She
- stayed with me for a month, after which she moved back home.
- To explain why she did that, she gave me two reasons: 1. I was being
- overprotective of her and 2. she couldn't stand it anymore living in the
- shelter. There WERE some GOOD reasons I had been overprotective of her,
- though. The year before, my ex's mother had blackmailed my ex into
- acting as if she hated me for two months, which killed me emotionally
- until i found out the truth, from which day on i hated the mother and
- saw her as a threat to my relationship with her daughter. SO IT'S
- UNDERSTANDABLE that whenever my ex went home from the hostel to pick up
- her mail, I'd get scared of losing her again. (Which did end up
- happening...who's the guy who said "if you worry about something for too
- long, it'll happen?")......
-
- Of course, my ex leaving me in that shelter was devastating to me.
- However, we saw each other during the day, EVERY DAY, for five months,
- after which my parents forced me to come home to America. (i was in
- England at the time). However, we'd still end each day with her going
- back home, and me going back to the shelter. I eased my pain with the
- knowledge that it was not going to be long until I saw her again.
- This has made me into a woman who LIKES having a date, time, and place
- to EVERYTHING, and actually maybe a bit of co-dependency is in there
- too...
-
- needless to say, my ex left me in January 1992 for a male ex-friend of
- ours who is even sicker mentally than her parents were..that was
- devastating too, but I'm over the grief of That, at least...
-
- So, last month I met this wonderful young woman here in town, two yrs.
- my senior, very attractive, feminine, and a lot more emotionally mature
- and confident than my ex ever was!! Things were going great until she
- found out she had three jobs opening up for her and she decided to take
- all of them, limiting our time together immensely. The issue came to a
- head the day she said "I'll be in touch soon re. our next date"...
- I panicked big-time, burst out in tears, and pleaded with her to please
- arrange something, anything.....
- this SCARED HER AWAY. she wasn't used to seeing me get so emotional. I
- tried to explain to her that this was just a 'blast from the past," but
- it was too late. We are no longer seeing each other, and I feel like a
- complete idiot. I mean, I've got a hell of a nerve being so possessive
- of someone when in a few years, I'll be the one heading out the door to
- make money (after college). I just can't seem to grasp the idea of "one
- relationship, two separate people with separate careers, jobs,
- educational needs, independence needs"....now, this woman from last
- month is back with her old girlfriend I feel even worse.
- If ANYONE out there has had to deal with a chronic fear of abandonment
- and has grown to deal with it, I'd appreciate knowing how you dealt with
- it. Please write soon, and thanks for listening!
-
- Thanks,
- Kerry Cater.
- send e-mail to: "kjc7435@ritvax.isc.rit.edu".
-
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