Hello Michigan Senior: Thank you for sharing your struggle. Since this is your first post, here on PC, welcome to Psych Central. (By the way, you mentioned you're 66. I'm 70!) One additional forum that may be of interest to you would be the relationships & communication forum. Here's a link:

https://psychcentralforums.com/relat...communication/

And then, since you're a bit older, the seniors' lounge may be of interest:

https://psychcentralforums.com/seniors-lounge/

Plus... a lot of us older folks tend to hang out in the games forum. So here's a link to that one too:

https://psychcentralforums.com/games/

You mentioned "following anything pertaining to Childhood Emotional Neglect." I wasn't sure what-all that might include here on PC. So here's a link to a blog, from Psych Central's archives, on the subject of healing from CEN plus a link to one additional article on the subject. Hopefully these are not things you've already seen:

Healing from CEN | Childhood Emotional Neglect

Recovering from Childhood Neglect

I hope you find PC to be of benefit.