And to be honest, it really makes me feel quite apprehensive.

We use this to describe feeling apprehensive about the idea of missing out on something potentially cool or rewarding.

and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be, at that very moment, an interesting case of spontaneous combustion without having the consolation of knowing it.

If we find ourselves in a relationship, we will assiduously practice the arts of what psychologists call distance management. When the chance of reaching a truly happy state appears, we'll subtly discover ways to introduce a chasm. We'll have an argument, spoil a birthday, ruin a holiday. We'll find we have to do a lot of work for an upcoming exam or presentation, that our gang of friends needs us to be somewhere else, that we forgot to return the credit card or tax bill, that our appearance requires a lot of our attention or that we like to flirt with a stranger at a party who suddenly seems very attractive indeed. In both tiny and large ways, we'll know just how to lower the mood, scupper a bond and destroy trust. Perhaps not enough to end a relationship completely, but certainly enough to worry our partner sufficiently as to our solidity that we can be privately sure things will never truly fly. Friends may commiserate with us on our so-called bad luck. Psychologists will note our superlative skill at romantic sabotage. With this to sound a bit like us, compassion is required. We should reflect back on our pasts and wonder at the connection between our fractured bonds with parental figures and our disrupted adult attachments. We aren't like this because we're wicked, we've just been very badly hurt. Once we understand how our skill at independence was acquired, we'll be in a better position to see that it has in reality outlived its rationale. We may still feel immensely apprehensive at the prospect of contentment, but we may finally be able to admit that we are, first and foremost, acting out of fear. Rather than dismissing our partners, we may stick closer to a much more awkward truth – that we're tempted to draw away from them because we're immensely scared that they might finally be in a position to make us very happy – and that simply nothing so unutterably and boundlessly frightening has ever happened to us before.

We too get sleepy and scared and confused and very apprehensive.

and was sometimes apprehensive that he might be at that very moment an interesting case of spontaneous combustion without having the consolation of knowing it.

we were apprehensive when it came to the "freemium" aspect of the game. Instead of the steady

Now, these are one thing that I am both excited about and apprehensive of, because Apple claims that their new sort of hybrid material design with a combination of silicone flanges like you have in the old ones and included foam makes these better for passive noise isolation, which is probably a big part of where their better active noise cancellation comes from.

I'm feeling anxious, apprehensive.

By moving the eyes around the room, you risk looking devious, apprehensive, or just plain bored.