"I would never abandon someone".
My loyalty is to him — he is my fellow soldier — so when he leaves, all I'll have is silence and fear, and the constant, nagging realization that I am abandoning someone I care about when he is at his most emotionally vulnerable.
Someone who genuinely loves their partner is going to be mature enough and have enough self-awareness to know that it is extremely hurtful to threaten to abandon someone we love just because we don't get our way".
One of the WORST things you can do is abandon someone with chronic pain.
He was a shabbily dressed man, everything he wore having been abandoned by someone else.
That year, he recalled, when a young woman asked him to pick her up at her home on Kelly Street, she cautioned that "when you get off the train you have to walk in the middle of the street; there are no lights, no sidewalks, the buildings are abandoned, and someone might drag you into a building and do something to you".
In his autobiography, Stuart Maconie recounts the story of the NME reviewer who repaired to the bar during a Primal Scream show and therefore failed to notice or indeed mention in his review that the gig had been abandoned when someone let off a CS gas canister.
I was in a place where you never feel alone or abandoned because someone will always come along to help you; where a starving woman would give her last bowl of food to a stranger; where kids are elated to play with an old tire and a stick.
The basic premise of sterilization and release program, by contrast, is the opposite: to provide care for animals already abandoned by someone else.
But that's not the only opportunity for guilt: There's also staying in a job you feel guilty about abandoning, giving someone money because you feel guilty about their situation and, oh, doing the opposite of what you want when it comes to working after having children because you feel guilty about being a good mom (more on that here).
