This Is How Narcissistic Parents Emotionally Neglect Their Children
There are few lonelier places for a child to be raised.
Who is the narcissistic parent? You could ask a million adult survivors of these homes this question and get a million different answers. The experience is different for each one of us. However, some threads seem to run through the stories of all adult survivors of narcissistic parents. Specifically, the thread of emotional neglect.
How could a child ever feel close to someone who is defined by their many masks? How could a child ever feel emotionally safe with the person who creates huge walls of pain and feeling that no one can scale? There’s no emotional closeness in a narcissistic household, so the children of these homes never grow up feeling emotionally cherished by the parents who objectify and use them.
In a half-a-dozen ways the children of narcissistic families are neglected and left behind to deal with the pain of a world they can’t quite understand.
What does emotional neglect look like?
Emotional neglect is widely accepted as a form of childhood upset with lasting effects. Therapists and counselors around the world deal with millions of people every day who were emotionally abandoned or denied by…
