@SummerBlossom
Misfit, alone, survival
For those who felt loved and supported, what actions on the part of your family made you feel that way? I'm not childlike and struggle to engage with children generally... and constantly worry my DC feel like a burden even if they're not.
I put: "Conventional, content, adequate"...
My mum loved me but she was by nature a bit cold. She didn't like being touched. My dad was far warmer towards us, looking back; but we knew we were loved; we were listened to, to an extent, but our opinion was rarely sought, for instance! However, I am a child of the 60s when parenting was different.
I think my upbringing was quite conventional for the time, lower MC, enough food, enough money, own house, annual camping trip, so we were 'content enough', I guess. I also didn't have many friends whom I envied because of 'better parents'- we all survived on a bit of benign neglect, really!
I'm not a 'down with the kids' sort of mum, myself, but I'm tactile, I hug my now young adult DSs daily, I tell them they're loved, I take an active interest in their lives, their opinion is taken into account. They know I (and DH) have their backs. That sort of thing, I guess.