Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents

by Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD

Their worldview promotes a readiness for indignant rage and perceived slights. Self-involved EIPs are always alert to signs of being wronged or disrespected, an orientation to life I call the “victimization viewpoint.” Victimization, unfairness, and injustice are the central themes and meaning for their life.