Emotional Distancing

Some of us come from broken families. One way to deal with such a chaotic scenario is to emotionally or physically distance ourselves. It was only realized that by doing such a thing, it places a tremendous burden on other relationships outside of our nuclear family. When we do not form surrogate bonds with other humans, then we can quickly become lonely because we feel that no one is there. This idea is not to say, try to un-distance ourselves. What it does welcome us to consider is that we might place extreme importance on individual relationships that can harm, or worse yet, create a self-fulfilling prophecy.