PTSD and Relationships: What Kids Learn About Love from Watching Adults Hurt Each Other
Marissa Erickson
When someone grows up in a home where love is tangled with pain, control, or emotional chaos, they subconsciously start to believe that this is what relationships are meant to be. As a child, if you learned that love means keeping quiet, walking on eggshells around someone’s moods, or giving up your own needs to keep peace, you get a distorted view of what relationships are supposed to feel like. These toxic love lessons don’t go away as a child grows older. They settle deep in the body and the mind, shaping how they trust, connect, and protect themselves. As adults, many carry this quiet form of childhood trauma into...
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