Mel Robbins
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And what you needed then and what you probably still need now.
Exactly.
Those needs don't go away.
They just grow in intensity.
So say that again.
What do you mean those needs don't go away?
And those needs being you need nurturing.
Right.
You need to feel safe and be protected.
Right.
And you're looking for guidance.
That's right.
And if you didn't get one of those things or all of those things, and you don't even remember it because this happens in the first couple of years of your life.
when this attachment is established or not, that if you didn't get those things, what do you mean they keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger?
Unmet needs grow.
Yeah.
You know, one other thing that you write here, daughters of compromised mothers cling to hope.
Hope that the mother they have will become the mother they need.
Enduring hope creates a pathological fantasy that keeps women trapped in cycles of disappointment and grief.
Choices feel more like compulsions.