I experienced emotional and physical abuse from my father and emotional (I hesitate to call it neglect because I genuinely feel she just doesn't know how to express her emotions) absence.

Now while I have for the most part come to terms with what my father did I still struggle with the emotions related to my mother. Perhaps because I find myself continuing to care take for her but I feel it is something more.

While my father may have told me I was worthless it was my mother's failure to be there when I needed her that made me feel worthless and somehow that seems harder to get past.