Overcoming Fear of Commitment, Rejection and The Pain of Separation

We spend our entire adult lives seeking to recreate the joy and avoid the pain we experienced in childhood. If family relationships brought us happiness, we seek to duplicate that happiness with the spouse we choose as adults. But if our family relationships reflected rejection, neglect, harsh treatment, abandonment, or early death, we may be unable to form healthy intimate relationships as adults because we are constantly avoiding the repeat of those bad feelings we experienced as children. This is at the root cause of so many men and women who seem to avoid committed relationships or seem to go from one failed relationship to another. How do we examine ourselves and discover the root cause of relationships that end painfully and leave lingering scars that never heal? Today we take a look at self-examination for the purpose of healing and breaking patterns of pain that prevent healthy marriages.