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“But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account.”

Poverty Parentification Adultification Negligent Parents

Book:The Crane Husband

Source: The Crane Husband

“I knew exactly how to behave in the presence of adults, what made their eyes light up: speak intelligently, be polite, listen when spoken to, ask meaningful questions... When I became a teenager, I'd overhear adults laugh and say to my mom, "She's thirteen going on thirty, isn't she?" That felt like winning the lottery, to be told I wasn't like other kids. I was more like an adult. I was extraordinary.”

Growing Up Childhood Youth Maturity Coming Of Age Childhood Trauma Parentification Growing Up Too Fast

Book:Dissonance

Source: Dissonance

“Your mother doesn't know these things,” he said, a note of pleading in his voice. "She has always been that way. She is an artist. Her feet barely touch the ground. I've been the one to keep her tethered to the earth. And now it's your job. And you're too young, and it's not fair, but there it is." He was right. It wasn't fair.”

Child Neglect Parentification Absent Parents Adultification

Book:The Crane Husband

Source: The Crane Husband

“The fact that you are questioning your relationship with your parent means you are bringing about awareness and activating the process of change in yourself. By increasing your awareness, your own intuitive healing journey began. Trust in time for answers that are not clear yet, and love the questions themselves.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest Emotional Recovery

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“Cooperation does not equal enjoyment.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“Family dysfunction is progressive. It never stays the same. As it progresses, appropriate boundaries between parent and child may become nonexistent and communication becomes increasingly strained.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“There's nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of a parent rather than the child.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then to resent her for it.”

Parentification

Book:The Crane Husband

Source: The Crane Husband

“As long as the abuse or neglect experienced in childhood remains buried within, we re-recreate our family in adult relationships.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“Assigning responsibility where it rightfully belongs is the first crucial step in gaining access to one's true feelings, needs, and wants.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“All families function as a system in which one person's actions affect another and vice versa.”

Emotional Abuse Parentification Covert Incest Emotional Incest

Book:Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

Source: Silently Seduced, Revised & Updated

“You're too young to have to cross things off a list. You worry too much." But I kept writing. Someone had to remember to do things.”

Lists Parentification Loss Of Childhood

Book:Keeper of the Night

Source: Keeper of the Night