Mine comes from moving schools when I was a kid. I would start a new school year, make new friends, become comfortable and then all of a sudden I'd have to do it all over again. The first time I moved schools I blended in pretty well with the rest of the kids. I liked being the new girl. Then half way through 2nd grade I moved again to a new school district and this is definitely the source of my abandonment trauma. I remember crying all day on my first day of school. I would occasionally just burst into tears. This made me the weird girl so no one wanted to be friends with me so I would just play by myself for the rest of 2nd grade. It was bad. Things got better and in 5th grade I had my own little friend group and had really started to feel settled.... But my family and I moved to Ireland just before I turned 11. I just think it's pretty interesting because I was never abandoned, I was doing the abandoning. I was the one who always left. Anyone else come from a similar background? I'd like to hear your story!