Negative anchorage

The inability to move on to pastures new due to the investment (mental, physical and/or finanicial) in reaching one's currrent status

"I'd love to take up modelling but there's just so much time and effort been spent in reaching where I am today that I can't bring myself to give it all up'

'I know where you're coming from, it's a massive ask to shake off all this negative anchorage'