Alice Miller Quotes
The Attachment To Parental Figures I Am Trying To Describe Here Is An Attachment To Parents Who Have Inflicted Injury On Their Children. It Is An Attachment That Prevents Us From Helping Ourselves. The Unfulfilled Natural Needs Of The Child Are Later Transferred To Therapists, Partners, Or Our Own Children. We Cannot Believe That Those Needs Were Really Ignored, Or Possibly Even Trampled On By Our Parents In Such A Way That We Were Forced To Repress Them. We Hope That The Other People We Relate To Will Finally Give Us What We Have Been Looking For, Understand, Support, And Respect Us, And Relieve Us Of The Difficult Decisions Life Brings With It. As These Expectations Are Fostered By The Denial Of Childhood Reality, We Cannot Give Them Up. As I Said Earlier, They Cannot Be Relinquished By An Act Of Will. But They Will Disappear In Time If We Are Determined To Face Up To Our Own Truth. This Is Not Easy. It Is Almost Always Painful. But It Is Possible. In
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