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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

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Emotionally immature parents fear genuine emotion and pull back from emotional closeness. They use coping mechanisms that resist reality rather than dealing with it. They don’t welcome self-reflection, so they rarely accept blame or ...more

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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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“I imagined I must not speak, in order to preserve, impossibly, my chance to speak. I nearly wretched on the feelings I forced myself to swallow.”
― Katie Langston, Sealed: An Unexpected Journey into the Heart of Grace

tags: oppression, sexism

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“When I say Queer love, I mean love that makes its own rules. Love that exists without borders and thrives without clean lines. Love that creates more space than it takes up.”
― Jen Winston, Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

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“Darkness, you know, is relative.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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