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  • Love Me, Don't Leave Me

  • Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships
  • Written by: Michelle Skeen PsyD
  • Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant
  • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Love Me, Don't Leave Me

Written by: Michelle Skeen PsyD
Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant
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Publisher's Summary

Everyone thrives on love, comfort, and the safety of family, friends, and community. But if you are denied these basic comforts early in life through a lack of physical affection or emotional bonding, you may develop intense fears of abandonment that can last well into adulthood - fears so powerful that they can actually cause you to push people away. If you suffer from fears of abandonment, you may have underlying feelings of anger, shame, fear, anxiety, depression, and grief. These emotions are intense and painful, and when they surface they can lead to a number of negative behaviors, such as jealousy, clinging, and emotional blackmail.

In Love Me, Don't Leave Me, therapist Michelle Skeen combines acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), schema therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help you identify the root of your fears. In this book you'll learn how schema coping behaviors - deeply entrenched and automatic behaviors rooted in childhood experiences and fears - can take over and cause you to inadvertently sabotage your relationships. By recognizing these coping behaviors and understanding their cause, you will gain powerful insights not only into your own mind but also into the minds of those around you.

©2014 Michelle Skeen (P)2016 Tantor

What the critics say

"[Skeen's] writing is concise and wonderfully clear, with many excellent exercises to give the reader the opportunity to make actual positive changes." (Randi Gunther, author of Relationship Saboteurs)

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Good book

I’m listening to this to try to better understand my wife. There are a couple points where they spend 5 minutes listing activities. Likely good for some people I guess but seemed like overkill. I skipped a lot of that.

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