Dear merry667,

I feel like that a lot too. One of the bad things about emotional neglect I have found is that if one's parents do this, it not only results in less empathy, compassion, understanding, encouragement and consolation from them, but it also teaches children to deny these things to themselves and how to do that. So I think it is doubly damaging. I am so sorry that this happened to you and your brother. That is really heartbreaking.

Sincerely yours, Yao Wen