The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed

Who do I feel comfortable going to when I am most upset? Who can I go to in times of need?

“The earlier the unresolved need, the less capable we are as adults of sustaining our sense of well-being when that need is not fulfilled by another.”

If you keep these lists available for reference, then, when a sense of deprivation starts setting in, you have something to use to counteract it.

It’s hard for moms to be sensitive and attuned when they are gone ten or twelve hours a day.

Why did she have children?

When the world beats you down, when your marriage falls apart, when your feelings are hurt, you can always turn to Mother.

(Neglectful and abusive parents are often untreated…

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Good self-care is finding (healthy) activities that give you a moment of pleasure or are a time out from what is so stressful.

One way this shows up is in a kind of love hunger that causes people to stay in relationships that are abusive or unsatisfying, because the feeling of need is so desperate that the individual can’t leave. Not having an internal reference point for being well loved, they often feel, This is better than nothing. Others find it easier (and more famili