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“Some kids were afraid of the dark I was too, but eventually I hid in it like a spark I lit myself but soon disappeared Because being seen is what I mostly feared”

Book:Hey Humanity

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“If unloving mothers were able to see their behavious as abusive, they either would stop behaving that way or they would get help for their dysfunction. But many cannot: instead, they deny it, to themselves, their families, and the world at large, in order to avoid a sense of guilt, to avoid having to make changes in their lives, or to avoid the bruising awareness that they, too, were unloved children.”

Childhood Abuse Emotional Abuse Childhood Trauma Mother Daughter Relationship Engulfing Mother Narcissistic Parent

Book:When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

“If you are told from the time you are one month that you're no good and you're not smart and you can't do it and you don't have an opinion of your own and you pick the wrong friends and you don't study the right way and you don't wear the right clothes and you don't look nice, at some point you're going to start believing it. And if you believe it, you're going to need a mommy to tell you what to do. And that's abuse. Not to let your child grow up to be an independent, respected human being.”

Childhood Abuse Emotional Abuse Childhood Trauma Mother Daughter Relationship Engulfing Mother Narcissistic Parent

Book:When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

“Another step is that daughters can learn to monitor their own feelings and instincts by saying, "I feel uncomfortable (angry, dominated, usurped, inadequate, guilty, furious) with my mother more often than I do not. I have to pay attention to that, because it shows in how I treat my friends (lover, spouse, kids, colleagues). There is validity here. I don't have to blame or excuse my mother-I just have to see her so I can see myself.”

Childhood Abuse Emotional Abuse Childhood Trauma Mother Daughter Relationship Engulfing Mother Narcissistic Parent

Book:When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

“They were playing in the backyard. Not a game, exactly, but an embodiment of vague excitement, the kind known only to very young children, where delight rushes through them simply by running across an empty field not yet recognized as a tiny backyard in a shitty part of town.”

Childhood

Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“When a mother attempts to bind a grown daughter to her, whether by fear or neediness or illness or rage, the consequences can be devastating. To continue trying to please an unpleasable mother threatens an adult daughter's mental health and all of her relationships. And yet such daughters keep coming back to their mothers, without the daughters' altering that relationship and their bitter or anguished reactions to it.”

Childhood Abuse Emotional Abuse Childhood Trauma Mother Daughter Relationship Engulfing Mother Narcissistic Parent

Book:When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

Source: When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

“And a tiny looper caterpillar would be there, too, measuring, like a child’s finger and thumb, the rim of the table, and every now and then stretching upward to grope, in vain, for the shrub from which it had been dislodged.”

Childhood Memory Memoir Exile

Book:Speak, Memory

Source: Speak, Memory

“Tiếng chim vách núi nhỏ dần Rì rầm tiếng suối khi gần khi xa Ngoài thềm rơi chiếc lá đa Tiếng rơi rất mỏng như là rơi nghiêng”

Nature Beauty Childhood Vietnamese Childrens Sensory Metaphor

Book:Góc Sân và Khoảng Trời

Source: Góc Sân và Khoảng Trời

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