PuhLease,
“I cannot respond fairly to your question, because I do not feel that my parents ever love/loved me….I was a status symbol. Nothing more, nothing less”.
I feel for you.
Sometime parents innocently, or not so innocently, make terrible mistakes with child rearing.
Please, for the benefit of those of us raising children, tell us what you’ve seen that parents dont grasp are important to do and not to do, if they want to communicate to their children that they love them. Perhaps you can give us a list of must do-s, and a list of must not do-s.
If, as a result, you lead to even one child feeling more loved, that would be really beautiful and a great contribution to society.