Jess Petersen’s Reviews > Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents > Status Update
Jess Petersen
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“The Driven Parent expects everyone to want and value the same things they do. Rather than accepting their children’s unique interests and life paths. They selectively praise and push what they want to see. They fear their children will embarrass them by not succeeding, yet they can’t offer their children the unconditional acceptance… from which to go out and achieve.”
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Jess Petersen
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“As parents, emotionally immature people need their children to play a proper role that includes respecting and obeying them… They act as though being a parent exempts them from respecting boundaries or being considerate. They try to form their children into acting a certain way by not speaking to them, threatening to reject them, or getting other family members to gang up against them.”
— Sep 15, 2026 06:29PM
Jess Petersen
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“Their children feel fleeting moments of connection with them but don’t know when or under what conditions their parent might be emotionally available again.”
“Many parents never had a supportive or emotionally intimate connection with their own parents, so they developed tough defenses to survive their own emotional loneliness early in life.”
— Sep 13, 2026 07:10PM
“Many parents never had a supportive or emotionally intimate connection with their own parents, so they developed tough defenses to survive their own emotional loneliness early in life.”