Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

What it is about

Lindsay Gibson describes emotionally immature parenting patterns and the adult strategies that often develop around them: overfunctioning, internalizing distress, role reversal, self-neglect, loneliness, and repeated attempts to win unavailable approval. She offers ways to recognize limitations, set boundaries, and build relationships with greater reciprocity. It stays near me because the feelings and patterns that become dangerous when I call them the whole truth should not become an idea I can praise from a safe distance.

Why I keep it

Emotionally immature parents. I found mine in chapter one.

Key ideas

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