When your home and family kept reshuffling—new step-parents, new siblings, new rules, new everything—you learned that love comes with an expiration date ⏰. You became incredibly adaptable and resilient, mastering the art of fitting into new family dynamics and building connections quickly 🤝. Your flexibility and ability to navigate changing relationships is genuinely impressive and serves you well in many areas of life.✨<br><br>But somewhere deep down, you absorbed the message that *nothing is permanent*, that even the people who promise to stay might eventually move on 🔀. Now you find yourself holding back in relationships, not fully investing because part of you is always preparing for the inevitable abandonment and goodbye 👋. You love with one foot out the door, you protect yourself from the pain of another relationship that might eventually dissolve.

Expecting Everyone to Leave

Involvement with child protective services or foster care system

Living in refugee camps or temporary shelters

Living in temporary or institutional housing (shelters, refugee camps)

Parent constantly in trouble with the law

Parent involved in illegal or criminal activities

Sudden displacement/immigration due to war/persecution

Witnessing violence during migration journey

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👋 Expecting Everyone to Leave

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