Dear Patty:

You wrote that you “realized how scared I am of being alone…because I don’t know how to be alone, especially as an adult”-

I am thinking you do know how it feels to be alone, you experienced it, as a child and it was scary. This is why you’ve been scared being alone as an adult. Being alone, for a child, is often a scary experience. This is why a young child, when walking away from her mother so to explore something, walks away, then looks back to make sure her mother is still there (that she is not alone, without her mother), then keeps walking away toward the object to explore.

Do you have memories of being alone-and-scared, as a child?

anita