How Children Heal From Perceived Abandonment — and How Relationships with Parents Can Still Grow

One of the quiet wounds many children carry into adulthood is the feeling of being left . Not necessarily abandoned in the literal sense, but left with relatives, neighbors, or caregivers for long stretches while their parents were out misbehaving, escaping responsibility, or simply choosing something else over their child’s presence. It’s a wound that doesn’t always look dramatic from the…