The Fear of Being Loved
By: Debra Brent I was tagged in a post on Instagram this morning by Beatanxiety.Me that sent me into an unexpected ball of tears. The post was about Chronic Loneliness and the tag was in regards to a comment about the fear of being loved. And yes, I have an extreme fear of being loved. Not because I don't crave it, because that's the farthest thing from the truth. The fact is that I fear it because like the old saying goes, "Love Hurts" Childhood Trauma and Love For those who don't know my story, I am still dealing with and working through childhood trauma in regards to repressed memories, abandonment, neglect and many other types of abuse. The culmination of that, plus the adult traumas added on, has been one of toxic shame and chronic loneliness. The difference between being "alone" and "loneliness" is that being alone signifies a physical state, whereas loneliness signifies a way of "being". I never realized that even though I lo...
