fear of abandonment theme
A character exhibits a fear that someone they love (for example a husband or a dad) will leave them.
7 total · 4 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as2020e05 | major | Elijah viewed his stepmother, Mary Ann, leaving him to live with his aunt in Burlington as an act of abandonment. The story concluded with Mary Ann and Elijah happily driving off together to California. |
| tftc1989e1x05 | major | Peggy explained to Charles that she was killing him because knew his momentarily perfect love for her would not last. The viewer must therefore ponder a woman who is stereotypically (hell hath no fury like...) mad about (possibly) being spurned, only here she takes vengeance before the fact or acts to preempt the disagreeable contingency. |
| tz2002e1x37 | major | Daniella feared her babysitters leaving so much that she transformed them into dolls and locked them into a glass cabinet. |
| voy7x12 | major | revealed as perhaps the underlying reason for B'Elanna's behavior |
| as1985e2x11 | minor | Jonah sought reassurances from his aloof parents that they wouldn't leave him, but his pleas largely fell on disinterested ears. |
| movie: White Dwarf (1995) | minor | Never the Shifter was worried that his mother would never take him home from the clinic where he was being teated for his shapeshifting condition. |
| rbt1985e2x04 | minor | John asked Jill whether their relationship would last. Jill implied that she had doubts, which made John ill at ease. |