“My parents were distant, unaffectionate people. I don’t remember ever being held by them. They were never interested in how I thought or felt. I never felt important to them at all.”
“My mother was crazy - nice one minute and the next a screaming maniac. My father was sweet but he was never around, and he never did anything to stop my mother from the emotional abuse.”
“My father was an angry violent man and my mother was weak and pathetic. He often beat us and my mother did nothing to protect us.”
“My mother didn’t believe me when I told her that my father was molesting me. She is still with him, and still doesn’t believe me.”
Many people grew up with parents who didn’t know how to love them in the ways they needed to be loved. Others grew up with parents who not only did not love them, but who were physically, emotionally and/or sexually abusive. Unloving and abusive parenting has far reaching affects on our lives.
Many people spend years trying to heal from their childhoods. Often, at some point in their healing process they ask, “Should I forgive my parents? Would it be healthy for me to forgive them? […]

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