Author: kenjy

Chapter 6 I have identified as being an internalizer and this chapter goes over some characteristics of what that means. As always some of it applied and some did not, but more often than not I felt like I was reading about myself and my struggles. I’ll start by saying I never felt truly connected…

Chapter 5 This chapter talks about externalizer and internalizers regarding how children grow up and handle relationships with emotionally immature parents. I already can guess that I’m an internalizer. However, if this book has taught me one thing so far it’s that people are often on a spectrum and I most likely have behaviors of…

Chapter 4 The four types of emotionally immature parents is the main focus of this chapter. This will be a smaller post due to the nature of already going through them as people but I’ll still highlight the main characteristics discussed. [Emotional Parents- run by their feelings, swinging between over involvement and abrupt withdrawal. They…

Chapter 3 Thoughts This chapter focuses on the childhood difficulties caused from emotionally immature parents. There were a lot of issues that mom and dad caused but this chapter starts with a check list of painful difficulties that emotionally immature parents may have caused. I noted 13 out of 15 for this assessment when recalling…

Chapter 2 Thoughts While I can recognize many of the emotionally immature hallmarks in my parents, I also recognize them in myself. It stands to reason that I also have these characteristics since I was raised by people who didn’t teach me emotional maturity. Out of the 15 identifiers of emotionally immature people, I identified…