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When Childhood Enters Love. What could possibly go wrong?
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Childhood doesn’t stay in childhood. We carry it straight into our friendships, our romantic partnerships, and eventually our own parenting, often without realizing it. Kim Lee Jardin, adolescent psychotherapist, unpacks how avoidant parenting shapes the internal working model we build early on: a largely unconscious prediction system that decides whether people will be there for us, whether our needs will be tolerated, and whether we’re worthy of care. That model can sit beneath “I want closeness” while whispering “expect abandonment,” creating confusion and repeated…
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