How does Oedipus relate to my BIG Question you ask? Well, I will tell you...

The connection I tried to make between Oedipus and my question is at the ending of the play, when Oedipus reveals his truth to his children/siblings. Here, the children I'm assuming had chose to open up to his character believing that he was their father and nothing else. But it is heartbreaking and shocking for them to discover that Oedipus is their brother along with their father. For this reason, I'm concluding that children who fear forming a new relationship fear it because it may be either short-lived or full of deception--in other words the person who they befriend may trick them somehow. So they refrain from forming new relationships in the first place.