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  • #126016
    Anonymous
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    Dear moonshine90:

    You wrote that you “have always felt like something is missing in me”

    That when you were younger, you “always felt this deep longing for something”

    “and I always told myself that this something would come to me when I got old enough to get away from my family”

    Is that “something” -home: a place where you are loved and where you are safe?

    anita

    #126017
    Moonshine90
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    Hi Anita. Yes, that’s exactly it. I felt like I was almost home when I was with my ex’s family. They were genuinely lovely people who would help anyone. I’ve got so much respect for them. My parents love me in their own ways but (without sounding big headed) they don’t have the emotional intelligence to understand where I’m coming from. I can see the cause in both their behaviours but can’t exactly tell them. 1.) because they will definitely take offence and 2.) they wouldn’t believe in therapy. It’s so lonely for me cos I want to feel that closeness and understanding with them but know I’ll never get it. It doesn’t help that I live with them. I’ve got this resentment towards my mum especially for masking my anxiety when I was a child. She struggles with her own anxiety but has never done anything about it and always lent on my Gran who was emotionally abusive to her. My mum can be emotionally abusive to me too. My dad used to be violent towards my mum years ago too and it just shows she has no self respect. for years I’ve seen the same things happen. There’s no violence now, that stopped as I got older but my parents stay together for convenience. It’s really put me off relationships but not just for that reason. I don’t think it’s fair to get involved with someone when I’m not emotionally stable and potentially jobless! x

    #126048
    Anonymous
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    Dear moonshine1990:

    It is interesting, how we view our parents. What I mean is, when you were a young child, I am sure you weren’t familiar with the term “emotional intelligence” and I am sure you didn’t think something like: “they don’t have the emotional intelligence to understand where I’m coming from.” It is at 26, after … 26 years of knowing them, that you express yourself this way. When you were a child, you probably simply felt hurt and very much alone, that is all. And you didn’t know why.

    And the reason you felt hurt and so alone is because a loving connection with at least one of your primary caretakers was necessary for your physical/ emotional well being. Not optional, but necessary. When you grow up without it, you gain the weight, the height, go through puberty.. even start aging, but then you are still as hurt and alone as when you were a child.

    A young child doesn’t see a separation between its environment and itself. Whatever the environment is, the child takes in as its brain matures, and it becomes part of the child. So that aloneness became part of you.

    What To Do about it? One thing not to do is to no longer look for that loving connection with the people who rejected you for 26 years. I use the very “reject” because as a child and onward, you reached out to them repeatedly, and they didn’t see it, didn’t see you, ignored you, rejected your love for them.

    What To Do… That loving connection, you still need it. It is still non negotiable. You found the feel of it with your ex boyfriend’s parents, but the relationship with the ex is over and so is the relationship with his parents (having been conditional on the gf/bf relationship between you and their son)-

    This is becoming a long post, and there is no need to make it longer. You can take it from here, if you’d like, and we can correspond further.

    anita

    #165012
    Moonshine90
    Participant

    Hi again Anita. How are you? I’m sorry for the very delayed  reply, I’ve been on a bit of a roller coaster this past 6 months. I always seem to be drawn back to tiny Buddha when I’m looking for answers though. I was wondering-what is your background? You seem to know quite a lot about this kind of stuff. Id like to talk more if that’s ok with you?

    #165166
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Moonshine90:

    Welcome back. It is okay with me if you’d like to talk more, absolutely. Regarding my background, here on this website I am a member, like you, only more active. I am not a professional psychotherapist, not in my personal life and not here. My understanding of people and life is based on what I call my Healing Path of over six years now, starting with my first competent therapy of a few years, daily work on my part then and following therapy, including on this very day.

    anita

    #165426
    Sunset
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    Hi Moonshine,

    I’ve been reading through your posts & I can say, I am really hearing what you are saying & feel I can relate to your post a lot.  I too grew up with the same feeling of “missing” something & still to this day I can’t figure it out or discover what that is.  I feel my parents were the same – kept me secure but what I’m discovering later in life is that the emotional security was not there.  It still isn’t & if I try to express myself, I’m looked upon as dramatic, overreacting & just out to cause trouble.  It gets more frustrating & hurtful as life goes on because I’m beginning to see it for what it is, yet I’m not being heard.  It’s caused me to be insecure, distrustful, wary of relationships & sceptical of people.  I’m trying my best to look after myself & I can be outgoing in general, fearless when it comes to exploring the world on my own & generally just being by myself.  That massive void is still there however.  I hope you’re doing ok & just want you to know you’re not alone…

    #166106
    Moonshine90
    Participant

    Hello Sunset,

    It does seem like our backgrounds may have been similar in one way or another. It’s terribly isolating like you say- to not have your voice heard by the people closest to you. It seems we both have come to the point where the rose tint isn’t there anymore. I’m hoping that one day my sparkle comes back that I seem to have lost long ago. I’m feeling stuck between a rock and a hard place at the moment but hoping that I gain some momentum soon.

    Its good you’re taking care of yourself and are exploring the world, we have a beautiful planet and it’s there to be explored so do as much as you can 🙂

    There is a book that you may find useful called ‘home coming’ by John Bradshaw. I don’t feel in a place to work through it but you may feel strong enough to do some self work at this point.

     

    I hope you slowly manage to fill that void or at least feel at peace with it.

    All the best, Alex.

     

     

    #166168
    amaya
    Participant

    Hello Moonshine,

    I went through your earlier posts, I would want to share my experience with you. I underwent a similar situation to be dealt within myself .I really did fight for myself tried to talk to my parents, to make them understand what was hurting me, to change the way they think. But all in vain, they would get offended and disappointed with me. Undergoing all these made me feel that it’s ME who was creating the feelings inside ME and struggling with them. So, I had to change the way I think about them, it was me who was very much psychologically dependant on them. I did understand psychological dependance is one of the warmth factor about family but I was a little more expectant. I didn’t want to hurt myself or anyone anymore. So, I took control over myself and my feelings, dug deep inside me through meditation and started working on them. Its only YOU who can understand YOURSELF better and the best solutions are within YOU. Solutions are unique for everyone and every situation, there is no good or bad solution its only RIGHT solution that is right enough for you and only you ,either good or bad it doesn’t matter. Hope this post helped and please don’t mind if I sounded a little crude as I am not great in expressing through words.

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