Is this how it started?
When I was four years old my grandmother left me on the side of the road.While I don't consciously remember this event I often wonder if this was the start of my anxiety/abandonment issues. I don't recall all of the specific details, just that my family was going somewhere together. We took two vehicles, one for my parents, aunt and uncle and the other for my grandmother, sister, cousin and myself. My grandmother was to head out first with the adults following a little later. I was very upset by this and started crying and saying I wanted to ride with my mom. My grandmothers fix to this was to pull over on the side of the road, tell me to get out and wait for them. I grew up on a farm surrounded by gravel roads, but she waited to do this until we had hit blacktop. My grandmother took off with the other kids, meanwhile the adults were just leaving the house. The thing with gravel roads is that there are at least two routes you can t...