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Mentoring Through The Maze

Why Can’t I Forgive My Emotionally Absent Mother?

An adult son sits apart from an older woman, illustrating the emotional distance between a man and his emotionally absent mother

How emotional absence can teach a boy to rely only on himself, and how that pattern can make closeness, trust and receiving care harder in adult relationships. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TL;DR If you grew up with an emotionally absent mother, you may struggle to explain why the relationship still affects you because there may be no obvious […]