No safe adult to turn to for emotional support

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        💔&nbsp; What it means to have grown up with an emotionally unavailable or unloving parent
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        <strong>Growing up with an unloving parent meant you learned to navigate childhood without the emotional safety net that every child deserves - becoming fluent in reading others' moods while remaining strangers to your own needs.</strong>
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        You may have experienced a childhood where your feelings were treated like unwelcome guests in your own home. When you were hurt, scared, or angry, the adults around you either ignored you completely or made it clear that your emotions were inconvenient, dramatic, or wrong. You learned early that feelings don't get you comfort - they get invalidated, criticized, and turned against you entirely.
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        This emotional numbing became your brilliant survival strategy. You developed incredible self-sufficiency and learned to handle crises without falling apart, while developing radar for others' emotions since yours didn't seem to matter. But now you may find yourself disconnected from your own inner world, struggling to know what you actually feel or need in any given moment. When someone genuinely asks "What's going on for you?" there's often just static where your emotions should be.
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        💔&nbsp; The Core Wound
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        "You learned that your emotional world was unwelcome and inconvenient, teaching you to shut down the emotional spigot to stop bothering people with your needs - becoming so good at reading everyone else's emotional temperature that you forgot how to take your own."
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Tools & Learning

💔10 Ways Unloving Parent Trauma Affects Your Relationships

Acting Out for Love

Braced for Independence

Come Here, Go Away

Going to the Opposite Extreme

Loving and Hating Intensely

Same Dance, Different Partners

Sex as a Movie

The Accommodator

The Rescuer

The Stoic