Kyle

“Children experience loneliness like shame. They imagine the reason they are alone is that there is something wrong with them, that they have done something bad, something that makes them too gross to touch.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“Children of narcissists learn their feelings don’t matter to the narcissistic parent. The child carries an ever-present sense that he must bury his own ideas about the world, his own self, and do the thing required of him to please the narcissist, to receive the impossible-to-reach love and approval he craves. In short he doesn’t really know himself because he spends his life seeking to fulfill the fantasy world of the narcissistic parent.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“The attachment disorder made us unable to trust close relationships because the first thing we ever learned is that people leave you. Then it also made us panic at the prospect of being alone. It’s slow, difficult, excruciating work.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

“Our personal space is violated by such parents who do not recognize our need or desire for space, because they see us only as extensions of themselves.”
― Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park