Fear of Intimacy: Rejection and engulfment

Welcome - we are glad you came for help!

Most of us grow up fearing both rejection and engulfment, due to our growing-up experiences. But currently, protecting against rejection and engulfment might be causing your relationship problems, or may be the underlying reasons for not being able to find or sustain a loving relationship. Discover how to begin healing these fears.

Watch:

Heartbreak and Healing

Listen:

Download

Healing the Fear of Intimacy

Read:

Loneliness and Heartbreak .pdf

Village Login

Daily Inspiration

When someone behaves in a way you don't like, you have only three choices: accept them while compassionately embracing your feelings, open to learning to reach understanding and acceptance, or accept that their behavior is not tolerable to you and leave. Changing them is not an option, for only they can change themselves, and only if they want to.

By Dr. Margaret Paul

Inner Bonding Products:

Image	Title
	InnerBonding Gift Certificate
	Boundaries: From Fear or Love? By Dr. Margaret Paul
	Beyond Fear and Addictions By Dr. Margaret Paul
no image for this product	COMPLETE SELF-LOVE - The Ultimate Collection

Explore More Inner Bonding

LATEST PUBLIC ARTICLES

Oct-27: Are You Giving Yourself Negative "Waking Suggestions"?

Oct-27: Chronic Illness and Inner Bonding

Oct-21: You Cannot Experience Spirit With A Closed Heart

Oct-21: Truth is Food for the Soul

DAILY INSPIRATION

When someone behaves in a way you don't like, you have only three choices: accept them while compassionately embracing your feelings, open to learning to reach understanding and acceptance, or accept that their behavior is not tolerable to you and leave. Changing them is not an option, for only they can change themselves, and only if they want to.

By Dr. Margaret Paul

INNER BONDING EVENTS

Inner Bonding Events

10/14/2026 08:00 AM
5-Day Virtual Intensive
Dr. Margaret Paul

All Inner Bonding Events

More About Inner Bonding

Inner Bonding is a proven six-step self-healing process that has been developed and optimized over 30 years by Dr. Margaret Paul, Ph.D. and Dr. Erika Chopich, Ph.D. It’s comprehensive. It’s practical. And it always works when you do it.

Inner Bonding empowers you to self-heal the root causes of anxiety, depression, addictions, failed relationships and many other problems that inhibit your personal and spiritual growth and satisfaction. It teaches you how to love yourself rather than continue to abandon yourself, how to move beyond emotional dependency and attain emotional freedom, and how to heal the underlying control issues stemming from self-abandonment.