Your Vulnerability, in Its Natural, Innocent State, Bothered Your Caretakers or Peers This happened if your caregivers were: depressed or in conflict with each other such that there was no room for your neediness and, instead, you had to worry about and care for them; neglectfully preoccupied such that you had to raise yourself and/or your siblings; using you as a surrogate spouse or living vicariously through your achievements; convinced that you had to be tough to survive or highly competitive to succeed; or afraid or disdainful of their own neediness and, consequently, were verbally or
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