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Bridgette Peteet Ph.dPsychology Today |
You want your children to know their family. You also want them to be safe.
The spectrum of family emotional and physical distancing.
Grief doesn’t create dysfunction. It magnifies patterns already there.
How constant criticism masquerades as concern, and what to do about it.
Distant, controlling, or self-absorbed fathers can leave lasting marks.
Crab mentality can turn milestones into moments of sabotage.
When mothers center men, daughters learn love can mean self-abandonment.
For adult children of abusive, neglectful, or emotionally unsafe mothers.