CHANGING ABANDONMENT 1. Understand your childhood abandonment. 2. Monitor your feelings of abandonment. Identify your hypersensitivity to losing close people; your desperate fears of being alone; your need to cling to people. 3. Review past relationships, and clarify the patterns that recur. List the pitfalls of abandonment. 4. Avoid uncommitted, unstable, or ambivalent partners even though they generate high chemistry. 5. When you find a partner who is stable and committed, trust him/her. Believe that he/she is there for you forever, and will not leave. 6. Do not cling, become jealous, or
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