Quote:"I have severe abandonment issues for some reason! I just need to know that people are going to still be around and not leave me. I only have this fear with her and my husband. I fear that one of them will leave me. I can't make it without either one of them. They are my support system. Hopefully, I will get strong enough one day not to need my therapist for support, but right now I do need her to be there for me."

Internal attachment figure just means the person that you would call when you're falling off the edge of a cliff, (e.g. your spouse, therapist.) When we were children it was or it should have been our primary caregiver, (i.e. mother).