If someone feels that they're abandoned, there are always complicated feelings. There are always reasons for why people do the things that they do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.
I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it's always a good deal different than you expect it.
There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.
I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'
When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
Love can be put off, never abandoned.