Abandonment traumas can deeply damage you, making it difficult for you to create stable, loving, consistent, and supportive relationships, and often leads to other forms of abandonment.Typically, your abandonment traumas happen when one or both of your parents (or primary caregiver) are consistently unavailable or emotionally unavailable. This can happen due to physical separation from one parent, due to the death of a parent, due to divorce, due to mental illness, or due to substance abuse. The