emotional loneliness develops from not having experienced enough love and connection with others. In children, it develops from feeling invisible to their self-preoccupied parents. To add to our loneliness and confusion, our toxic parents often look and act normal, and they provide for our food, home, and shelter, but they do very little to connect or bond with us emotionally. Because of this, we leave our childhood with gaping holes where true security should have been.
bio mom: "you talk back to us even after we fseed you shelter you…" she said this like it was a favour, not her moral obligation as a mother
