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When emotional absence creates as much damage as emotional chaos

My parents never fought in front of us but also never showed affection and now I don't know how to have conflict or intimacy in my own marriage

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You're realizing that growing up without models for healthy emotional expression left you unprepared for the full range of feelings that intimate relationships require.

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