How Your Parents’ Parenting Style Affects Your Relationships
The needy parents
This is a safe space: did you parent your parents? Were your parents sort of still children themselves when they had children? Perhaps they were incredibly needy of your attention and affection because their own lives—from work to friendships—weren’t going well. Were you, perhaps, meant to be a band-aid for their broken life? Did you worry that if you went to a friend’s house for a sleepover that your parents would feel depressed or lost? Were your parents rather jealous when you started making your own friends and venturing off as a teenager?