How Your Past Affects Your Intimate Relationships You are likely still seeking as an adult the needs you had when you were growing up that did not get met by your parents. Intimacy is the realm in which we work out our unresolved or unmet childhood needs. The unmet needs, hurts or unresolved issues from […]
The Past
“I come from a very troubled childhood. [I had] a father who drank heavily and who terrorized my mother and myself on an almost daily basis. He once held a loaded gun to my mom’s head,” writes a woman from Christchurch, New Zealand. “Perhaps even as a baby I knew I wasn’t wanted, and that […]
Rising to the Occasion
“Could you write about how to deal with either ugly remarks or looks from people?” writes a woman from rural Colorado. “I have a disfiguring disorder (neurofibromatosis) [and have] masses of small tumors on my face, neck, arms and all over. “In winter, I can hide most of them (long sleeves, turtle necks, etc.) but […]