Rejection

Rejection is something I’ve struggled with all my life. I’ve thought about how I’ve been or felt rejected by others but I’ve never really looked at self-rejection, where a person becomes angry because she’s failed God or others and/or is not satisfied with the way God made her. We think something must be wrong with us and become perfectionists to prove our self-worth. The problem is that when we think of ourselves as unacceptable, we can begin to think or wonder if maybe God and others are also believing that about us. Thoughts of suicide, “I can’t take it anymore”, is one of several symptoms.

I think the aspect of rejection that really hit me was when fear of rejection was discussed. Because we are afraid of rejection, we please people so they won’t reject us. This has certainly been me. We withdraw from others. They can’t hurt me if I hold myself back. Wow! I’ve been thinking about the ways I withdraw. I do this a lot. I never really connected it with a fear of rejection.