My family was, and still is, pretty damn poor, so I often just chalked it up to us not having the money, and the fact that both of them have health problems, so I just believed that if they didn't take care of themselves first then they wouldn't be able to take care of us.

Maybe if I just kept reminding them, but I was too shy to do so, and that's why I didn't go to any doctor's when I should have.

They weren't emotionally available, I know that for a fact. If I had a problem they didn't seem interested, but if my mom had problems I had to listen to her and sometimes give her advice.