Emotional Neglect

“You talked yourself out of your own birthday. Not because you did not need it. Because the training runs so deep that you will abandon your own birthday to avoid being seen as someone who has needs.”

— Nikita Datar, She Was Not Low Maintenance. She Was Trained.
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“Emotional neglect leaves no bruise. That is part of what makes it so difficult to name and so easy to dismiss.”

— Nikita Datar

“You learned not to need things. That is not self-sufficiency. That is a survival response that became a personality.”

— Nikita Datar

“What was missing from your childhood was not dramatic. It was presence. Attunement. Being truly seen.”

— Nikita Datar

“When your emotions were ignored, you learned to make yourself invisible. Now you wonder why no one sees you.”

— Nikita Datar