As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

Other reasons might include overeating due to separation anxiety when the child leaves the home, or parents not wanting to criticize their children's eating habits when they are young.

The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship patterns in marriage. Holmes (1993) has described a pattern of 'phobic-counterphobic' marriage in which an ambivalently attached person will be attracted to an avoidant 'counter-phobic' spouse in a system of mutual defence against separation anxiety.

The worst is separation from the parents,

Separation anxiety is probably the No. 1 crisis I deal with, but the job involves a whole lot more than that.

They're my babies. There's some separation anxiety when they get adopted, but I'm always so glad they find homes.