Jonice Webb

We all have examples of how our parents have failed us here and there. No parent is perfect, and no childhood is perfect.

emotionally neglected people see themselves as the problem, rather than seeing their parents as having failed them.

These emotionally neglected people most often know how to give others what they want or need

But if there is an absence of such validation of a child’s importance to the parent, if a child is made to feel shame for wanting or needing attention from one parent or the other often enough, she will grow up being blind to many of her own emotional needs.

important thing to keep in mind is that while adolescents crave freedom, it is not healthy for them to get too much of it. Adolescents need a strong parent against whom they can rebel. They learn how to make good decisions and manage their impulses by bumping up against a parent’s rules and consequences.

healthy AP parent is supporting her child to achieve what the child wants. An unhealthy AP parent is pressuring her child to achieve what the parent wants.

The reason they had failed to notice Stuart struggling was that he’d given them no trouble growing up.

One of the unfortunate aspects of Emotional Neglect is that it’s self-propagating.

Adults who grew up emotionally neglected often seem normal on the surface, but are frequently unaware of the structural flaw in their foundation.

more a generic feeling of discomfort, a lack of being filled up that may come and go.