I can fully and emotionally relate to this. The dumping of negative emotions by my mother onto me destroyed me. At the ripe young age of 45, I still try to grasp how to deal with the neglect I felt as a child. As I said before, it has manifested itself in all of my personal relationships. Many times I feel like a sleeping dragon. I want to be hugged, but the dragon is waiting in the cave to breathe fire.