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These false motives and others keep us from setting boundaries: 

1. Fear of loss of love, or abandonment. 
2. Fear of others’ anger.
3. Fear of loneliness. 
4. Fear of losing the “good me” inside.
5. Guilt
6. Payback.
7. Approval
8.  Overidentification w...

Human beings have five fears that are relatively common:

1. Fear Of Death.
2. Fear Of Injury or mutilation.
3. Loss of Freedom and Autonomy.
4. Fear of separation coming from loss, rejection or abandonment.
5. Fear of the Ego-death, from shame or humiliation.

Conventional grief, the kind of grief that occurs after the loss of a loved one, or even loss of one’s dreams, is commonly discussed and understood.

Anticipatory grief is a lesser-known dimension of grief, something which occurs before death (or any great loss).