Yes to your questions. Me too. Not acting like a child but feeling like one. Wanting to be her child I was just now wishing to be with T, thinking of her. Nothing on my mind.. I just want to be there with her.

I just had the thought a while ago that I want to grow up with her. Not that the clock can be turned back, but that the growing and learning now includes feelings of nurturing and care that I missed. The longing for it was not buried too deep and was easily nudged into awareness in therapy.

It can be that we feel that having needs at all is childish if we were taught to 'not need' and/or if those needs weren't met.