Emotionally absent parents

"My dad treated us all like we weren't worthy of his time... I live my life thinking I'll never be good enough."

An emotionally absent parent neglects their child's feelings, according to a psychologist. This can impact kids in a variety of ways.

Emotionally immature parents, characterized by self-centeredness, moodiness, and a lack of empathy, struggle with emotional regulation, leading to unreliable emotional support for their children. Adult children of these parents often face challenges in forming healthy relationships and experience low self-esteem, trust issues, and emotional intimacy difficulties. Here are seven tips on how to deal with emotionally immature parents.

Create Kids Inc on Instagram: "😓Sometimes being in the home but not mentally or emotionally available hurts more or as much as than being completely absent. It can create deeper anger and loneliness than parents realize. 👉It's because a child doesn't feel worthy of your attention or care. They begin to attach these feelings to their own identity. 🧐A child doesn't understand how hard or hectic life is for adults. They aren't developmentally ready to understand how circumstances effect a…

Was your mother emotionally distant? As adults, women who grew up with emotionally absent mothers can feel flat. Because their inner world was ignored as children, they may not know how to nurture it now. But by understanding their past, they can make peace with it and embrace all their feelings.

An emotionally absent parent neglects their child's feelings, according to a psychologist. This can impact kids in a variety of ways.

Double tap if this might be you! Oftentimes when people think of abandonment wounds, they think of being PHYSICALLY left behind.. Such as an absent parent but that isn’t always the case. Abandonment wounds are created during moments where a child or person is physically or emotionally abandoned. An abandonment wound can come from various traumatic moments or even from a seemingly small one time experience. These moments then are triggered again in adulthood when you get rejected, ghoste...