Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

take responsibility for mothering yourself, meeting your needs, and finding the mothering you need, you change your life.

Recovering from the stress habit means rescuing your life and self-worth from impossible standards and learning to love and support yourself just for being here. You also will be kinder to other people as a result, a surefire sign of recovery in any addiction. 60.

One therapist reports that when a couple is able to increase their attachment bond, it helps each partner self-regulate and resolves some of their individual problems. For those with a self-reliant style, the task is to wake up the attachment system, which can then function more normally, as nature intended it. Consider what you can do to cultivate

It’s important to remember that our adult partners don’t owe us the selfless love that we wanted from our mothers. They have needs and limitations, and we are adults now, responsible for ourselves. That doesn’t mean you can’t have vulnerable feelings, even some needs that are rooted in infancy, but it does mean that your partner has a choice about