Fear of Intimacy
Do you have difficulty being open and vulnerable in your relationships? Are trusting others, surrendering control and letting others get close difficult for you?
Life lessons represent painful memories that never healed, hurt places in our hearts and souls, and limiting beliefs that hold us back and keep us from fulfilling our life purpose.
If fear of intimacy is your life lesson, you have been wounded in the areas of intimacy and closeness, trust and surrender. At the core, you have a fear of surrendering control and a fear of being rejected or abandoned.
"We have a fear of intimacy because we have a fear of abandonment, betrayal, and rejection. We have these fears because we were wounded in early childhood - we experienced feeling emotionally abandoned, rejected, and betrayed by our parents because they were wounded." - Robert Burney, author of codependence, the dance of wounded souls.
In the next post, the discussion of intimacy issues will continue and there will be questions for reflection.
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