3 Challenges of Having Had Emotionally Neglectful Parents

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3 Challenges of Having Had Emotionally Neglectful Parents
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Growing up with emotionally neglectful parents can lead someone to expect disappointment and struggle to connect with others. Moving forward often requires setting some boundaries.

Emotionally neglectful parents fail you emotionally as they raise you, and for most, that disappointment continues through your adult life, too.

Unacknowledged, the emotional neglect you experienced in your upbringing stays with you throughout your lifetime. It's the gray cloud that looms over all your relationships, limiting you from making meaningful connections and living a colorful life. You would think that since your parents are the ones who have known you the longest, they should be the ones to know you the best.

In order to lessen the pain, you may convince yourself that you no longer need their love or approval., approval, and understanding from our parents. And when this great need for emotional connection goes unmet, you may need a coping strategy to deal with the deep hurt caused by growing up with your emotional needs thwarted by your parents.

This is why, instead of denying your basic human need for emotional connection, you can accept that your need is natural and real, and you can purposely manage it rather than allowing it to manage you.No longer view your emotional needs as weak.

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