Really interesting article. It's not me (I've got other issues ), but I suspect that my mom was emotionally hungry. It's a definite possibility from what I know of her parents, and the description of the child of an emotionally hungry person fits me to a T. Unfortunately ..... In a way I was glad to read that this can be more destructive to a child than more obvious abuses. It really just messed me up royally, and 6 decades later I'm still cleaning up the mess