Yep. Too true. It's a shame.
(You do know that the stuff I put up in black was a quote from the first post on this thread, right? I used a smaller font -- or at least tried to -- than that used by the original poster.)
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER
LOL
I haven't checked the original post in eons.
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER is only partially in jest.
It's been a challenge to overcome such things most of my life and still not completed.
And, the evidence of such amongst a number os posters hereon is considerable. All of us with such a background have an intense compulsion to invest in all kinds of things--to invest our emotions, passions, chips on our shoulders, contrariness, contentiousness, constructions on reality, brittleness, pickiness, prissyness, fierceness, . . . the list goes on--to invest such things and in such things out of our never adequately Daddy filled love buckets from the first 8 years of our lives.
We become addicted to work, ideas, organizations, churches, religions, habits, anything but God because Daddy never cemented foundational security and peace and love in our bone marrows in a Godly way those first 8 years.
And there's literally hell to pay for decades thereafter EVEN AFTER WE REALIZE THE PROBLEM AND EVEN WITH TONS OF PROFESSIONAL HELP, PRAYER AND COUNSEL.
Unless, of course, Holy Spirit does it all in an instant--but I've rarely seen that.