“…the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: what have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?” Antonio Machado Most people never really know the date, time, or place that we let ourselves slip out of sight. I know when I got my genetically pre-dispositioned heart attack several years […]
The Illusion and Reality of Abandonment
“Adults can’t be abandoned,” I said in a clinical conference with 500 or more persons in the audience. They were stunned and were contemplating running me out of town after being tarred and feathered. “Wait a minute – I didn’t say adults don’t feel abandoned.” A mother says, “But my adult son stopped coming to […]