Thanks @Former-Member ❤️ It will be great to lend my experience to help reach those goals!

I can be very confident and assertive, except when I am in the most vulnerable situations, like intimate relationships, and my relationship with my daughter. I want the best for her and I get terrified I will mess things up. I get great support from my psychiatrist and I see a psychologist on my daughter's behalf. 

I don't worry about abandonment from friends. I have built up huge self-reliant and resilient structures to manage on my own. However, these structures are guarding that very alone, scared and abandoned child inside. 

I guess it's an inverse situation: how confident I can be is how frightened I can get. So, that's what I'm working on now. Developing confidence on the inside, where it hurts the most 😉