Great post! This text covered many reasons for fear of rejection. One more thing can be added: A child who has been rejected by the parents from an early childhood, later in life will be afraid of rejection by other people (friends, partners ...)
Great post! This text covered many reasons for fear of rejection. One more thing can be added: A child who has been rejected by the parents from an early childhood, later in life will be afraid of rejection by other people (friends, partners ...)
My thoughts exactly - except some children do not have to wait till later in life to suffer the consequences. I work in the foster care system and I see so many young children whose caregivers are having difficulty managing behaviors because they (the children) are victims of early attachment trauma. The issue is so glaring but so hard to correct - especially when you have a caregiver who is not willing to adjust how they respond to the child's behaviors. These behaviors are rooted in further fear of rejection and abandonment which sometimes can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yeah, that's true! Childhood is in it's root.