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How emotional absence in fathers shapes adult relationships

Every man I've ever loved has been unavailable in some way and I'm realizing it's because my father was there but not really there my whole childhood.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The template of partial presence creates an attraction to familiar unavailability disguised as love.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Family-of-origin patterns in adult love?”

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