Dismissive parents

Emotional Invalidation: A Form of Emotional Abuse - Live Well with Sharon Martin

Dismissive parents

Are you trying to overcome negative attachment patterns? Understanding Psychology and Attachment theory is super helpful for starting your journey to better mental health and healthy relationships. Insecure attachment styles develop from unmet emotional needs during attachment: anxious attachment is caused by inconsistent parents, avoidant attachment by dismissive/rejecting parents, and the fearful style by abusive parents. Learning your attachment style can aid in treating attachment…

Give your kids the right to tell you when something you’re doing is hurting them, without being defensive or dismissive. #Childpsychology #childbehaviour #ToxicParenting

Healing our codependency and trauma is the best assurance to parent well. There are no perfect parents, so don't be hard on yourself. We may try to be different from our parents, but go too far in the opposite direction - from strict or controlling to over-indulgent; from abusive to over-protective; from neglectful to controlling. Love yourself!

It is so easy to be dismissive when we are parenting. We are too busy and distracted to stop and listen to what is needed. When we don’t attend to children, they learn they are not important, their feelings and views of the world are not important, or worse, not valid. When we learn that our feelings are not valid, we question our feelings and experiences, question our reality, and lose contact with our inner knowing of what is right and wrong. Our internal compass starts to go haywire. When…

A little tough love today ... If you who had parts of your childhood stolen from you by your parents... dont give them parts of your adulthood too. . Here are some examples: - -You watched your parents terrible divorce so now refuse to get married even though you have an incredibly healthy and loving relationship and its what you deeply want. - -You were abused by your parent so now you avoid and push away people that would be healthy loving safe havens for you. - -You were abandoned or…

Like half of my depression comes from the fact that I don't feel like I can tell my parents anything without them being dismissive #gethimback

If you think these estranged parents have a script, you’re not wrong.

There are four different types of emotionally immature parents, but at the root of each type is poor emotional development, a lack of relational skills, self-centeredness, and a struggle to develop deep emotional intimacy with their children. If you have an emotionally immature parent, it is wise to exercise discernment regarding the things you share with them. Have boundaries, and remember that some things are not your parents’ business.

In cases in which the benign narcissist is a parent, there may be some unresolved resentment about the parent's immaturity, and as an adult, it may feel as though the parent is emotionally stunted, while you have progressed and leapfrogged your parent into adulthood.

There are four different types of emotionally immature parents, but at the root of each type is poor emotional development, a lack of relational skills, self-centeredness, and a struggle to develop deep emotional intimacy with their children. If you have an emotionally immature parent, it is wise to exercise discernment regarding the things you share with them. Have boundaries, and remember that some things are not your parents’ business.

47 - Did you have strong need fo parental approval?

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