Signs You’ve Been Living With Your Guard Up
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Julia Austin
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Your guard can be a learned behavior
Research has found that there is a link between suffering childhood neglect and living with a certain guard up. Adults who struggled to receive the attention they needed as children may have learned from a young age that they’d need to solely depend on themselves. As adults, that can lead to a fear of having any sort of dependency on others, which manifests itself as an emotional barrier.
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