Seraphina describes her relationship patterns during a therapy session:

“I get so terrified that my partner will leave me that I need to be in constant contact. If they don’t reply to a text within ten minutes, I panic and send dozens more, demanding to know where they are and if they still love me. My friends say I stifle people. When I look back at my infancy, my father worked overseas for months at a time, and my mother was highly inconsistent—some weeks she was incredibly affectionate, but other weeks she was completely emotionally withdrawn and distant, leaving me unsure of when or if I would receive comfort.”