How Fawning Fosters Distance in Adult Relationships

A childhood trauma response that leads to estranging family and ourselves.

• Fawning, a trauma response learned in childhood, can lead to quiet estrangements from family and one’s self.
• Fawners’ relationships are performative, not genuine connection, so fawners often feel unseen and unheard.
• People-pleasing is a learned strategy or a conscious choice, while fawning is a survival mechanism.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brothers-sisters-strangers/202510/how-fawning-fosters-distance-in-adult-relationships