4 Signs of Emotionally Immature Parents & How to Heal

Hey, it's your friend Mel and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast. If you've spent your entire life feeling like something was off in your relationship with your parents, but you could never quite put your finger on it. You need to hear me. You were right. And if you even feel guilty for just considering that something might have been off in your relationship with your folks, I need you to hear this.

You're still right. See, you're not crazy, you're not too sensitive, you're not overreacting. If you felt invisible when you were growing up, or if your needs were often ignored, or if no matter what you did, it was never enough, if you're constantly walking on eggshells, you didn't imagine that. And you want to know the crazy part? I bet even after all of that, you still find yourself struggling to set boundaries or you still find yourself craving their approval and bending over backwards or feeling guilty whenever you disappoint them.

And there's a reason why you feel the way you do. Our expert today says the reason you feel this way is because you grew up with an emotionally immature parent. And today, you're finally going to understand what that means. 91% of you said yes, I can relate to that. So in order to teach us about this very common experience of being raised by an emotionally immature parent and the exhausting cycle that you can find yourself in, I called in the world's leading expert on the topic, and she is here to free you from the guilt.

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