The loneliness of being and feeling unseen by our parents is as profound a pain as any physical injury; it just doesn’t show itself on the outside. Gibson explains that emotional loneliness is a vague and private experience that is difficult for a person to conceptualize or describe. As children we have no way of identifying our parents as selfish, nor do we understand that our relationship with them is severely lacking closeness. Our young brains aren’t mature or developed enough to form or understand the complexity and gravity of these types of concepts. As children we live in what we know.
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