I Was Emotionally Neglected As a Child

My mother had wanted a boy. After 2 girls and 5 miscarriages, she had me - another female. I can not remember anything before 5 years of age but when i was 5, her wish came true. She loved my brother, holding him with the kind of...

I'm an adult now, emotionally neglected & verbally abused as a child, I sometimes have flashbacks.  I often feel guilty about them. There's no one to blame because my parents had it worse than I did.  As a child I was never...

I was emotionally neglected by my dad. I was also verbally, mentally, and emotionally abused by my dad and siblings. Being the youngest of 3 children, it is really hard. When I was 9 my dad found out that my mom cheated on him, but he...

I was the youngest of 4, it seems like I wouldnt be neglected with so many brothers and sisters, right? Wrong, every last one of my brothers and sisters didnt want a thing to do with me, and my mom and dad were either working or to busy...

The first years of my life my mother was fighting cancer a lost that fight when I was 11. She was very sick in the end and wasn't home much. No one told me how sick mom was or that she was dying or even that she was real sick. She was...

When I was a child I grew up never knowing that I was emotionally neglected, because I was an only child and a lonely child for the first ten years of my life. It just didn't occur to me that there was something missing. I had all my...

I feel embarrassed about my childhood neglect, I'm trying to act the part of the social class I want to be, I'm attending college, a sergeant in the army, I live by motivation quotes that keep me positive that I can succeed in life, I...

As a kid I watched my dad beat my mom, Beat me scream and yell etc..In 4th grade a family friend help raised me..  Help me with school when my parents split, parts of 4th grade he started to sexually abusing me... And doing things to...

I dont feel like going into many details at this time but my mother severely neglected me emotionally as a child. Most of my memories of her are negative. Having to sign contracts stating that I'd obey her rules, begging for her...

I dont remember my mother being involved with me as a child. My earliest memory of my mother was her yelling, "I'm not your fucking mother!" when I happily thanked her for buying me a book I begged her for while at the mall. At the time...

I have self esteem problems. I try to get a hold on things, but it's so hard, because they didn't care enough. I sometimes think that maybe I shouldn't care either.
I remember, as a young teenager, trying to hold on to my daddy's arm as...

When i was growing up it was amazing, i was the youngest of 4 and my mum absolutely adored me. She was a single mother of  us and we had hard times but she always showed us love. She had many men come and go and we spent alot of time...

Hi...I don't know if anyone is on these message boards any more, but this is worth a shot.

I went through emotional neglect as a child - my parents didn't want me, they made fun of me, they did drugs and drank around me, as a small...

I feel as if I missed out on my childhood, I feel as if I didn’t have one really. The person who emotionally abused and neglected me was my moms boyfriend. I‘ll call him Bob, for I just hate saying his real name. She was...

I have one burning desire, that is to have an older sister who will hold me, hug and be there for me.

There is something horribly wrong with me, I knew right from the start something is wrong, but I can't seem to properly define it...

Hi, I'm glad I found this site.

I spoken my story so many times. And most of the time it was to people who in the end didn't care. But hey, we get through it just to come out stronger.

Well okay, so I"m going to start my story.

I...

I was completely ignored as a child. I commonly refer to my upbringing as one comparable to the raising of an animal, because I was fed, clothed, let outside & left alone. The only attention I received was negative attention from my...

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