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This early training to “be nice” causes women to override their intuitions.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
He reported that she was always involved with the kids. With no friends of her own, she turned to her children for companionship and affirmation of her worth.
Robert Glover • No More Mr. Nice Guy
Winnicott on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind and a Healthy Relationship
Maria Popovathemarginalian.orgWalking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents
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Oscar doesn’t know it, but he harbors decades of resentment and anger because his parents have seldom noticed, validated or responded to any of his feelings or emotional needs.
Jonice Webb • Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents & Your Children
The traumas we internalized were either acute, such as the death of a parent, or developmental, such as being raised by a depressed or immature parent who constantly pulled on you to be the caregiver in your relationship, or what we therapists call the “parentified child.”
Katherine Woodward Thomas • Calling in "The One" Revised and Expanded: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life
For example, clients would talk about an inner critic who, when they made a mistake, attacked them mercilessly. That attack would trigger a part that felt totally bereft, lonely, empty, and worthless.
