How Your Relationships Suffer If Your Parents Fought A Lot
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Julia Austin
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Disconnecting to protect yourself
Andre explained that another possible side effect of growing up in conflict is emotionally shutting down as a form of self-preservation. “Emotional disengagement can occur if you grew up in conflict. An intimate relationship requires you to be vulnerable with another person. Our childhoods shape us as individuals. Growing up in a household where emotions were not processed properly – or where it wasn’t safe to express emotions – it’s easy to have emotional disengagement and feelings of loneliness as a result.”
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