It’s not always drive or ambition - it’s a pattern formed early, where achievement became the safest way to feel valued. What ...

Experiencing conditional love is the outcome of being taught conditions of worth. If you were taught conditions of worth earlier in your life, what you likely learned is that how you look is more ...

Note: In a previous post, Unconditional Love is Bad!, I provoked some strong responses from readers. The main beef that they had was with my notion that parents withdraw their love from their children ...

Growing up, every child should receive unconditional love from their caretakers. Sadly, that is not always the case. Some people are raised in complicated households. Some parents are strict and ...

The truth is, it’s painful to see all the subtle behaviors that people tend to display when their parents only showed them love when they did whatever their parents asked them to. The kids who grew up ...