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Originally Posted by Lrad123
This is helpful. Yes, you are right that my parents probably did not set boundaries. I was really good, though, and very much wanted to please them.
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Being "really good" as a child often means not being free to express (or even fully feel) all of your emotions, especially the tricky ones like anger and jealousy. That subtle prohibition on learning how to feel, express, and cope with intense "forbidden" emotions can cause a whole cascade of problems later in life.