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When family visits trigger old wounds about competence

My mother criticizes everything I cook when she visits and I'm forty-three years old but I still feel like a child who can't do anything right in the kitchen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Parental criticism has created a lasting wound around your sense of capability and adult autonomy.

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