What Emotional Neglect Looks Like in Real Time
In the past month: My boys’ father met a woman, requiring him to stay out late on school nights—past 10 and even 11—leaving the boys home alone to go to…
The things everyone knows but no one is allowed to say. Unspeakably Bad Things.
In the past month: My boys’ father met a woman, requiring him to stay out late on school nights—past 10 and even 11—leaving the boys home alone to go to…
+++Love is inconvenient, often difficult. And IT is much more than enjoying, being attached, attracted to or glad for a thing. Love is a verb- evidenced by behavior that is benevolent, kind,…
My personality was not a good fit for my mother and since she had not ever considered choosing a thing(including me) which could rarely please or satisfy her- I think this…
Awwwww--- a neeeeeeed to “make people smile”--sounds sweet, wholesome, benevolent. Right? Ummmm... I do not always perceive it that way. Instead, it has felt stressful…because that UNYIELDING NEED/REQUIREMENT typically, (to the…