Psychologist Rebecca Bergen Shares the 6 Ways Your Parents Affect Your Love Life

"how emotionally available our parents were influenced the type of attachment we formed with them," she explains. "..."we create an internal working model of our parents that we later internalize as our own sense of self."

"Our parents' relationship is our first and most influential example of how to interact and communicate in a romantic relationship. How love was shown between parents is influential on the child.".... "Children will model and emulate the ways their parents show love to one another. Plus, how love was expressed to the child is also significant."

"Whether or not a person tends to express their emotions more openly or tends to skew toward passive aggression, frequently parallels how their parents communicated with each other and with the child,"

"I believe they affect us in different ways. Same-sex parents serve as models for our behavior, and opposite sex parents are projected into potential partners. This also works in reverse, in the sense that we may search for the opposite of a father who was stoic and uninvolved,"

a person may be hyper-vigilant to criticism and frequently argue with partners because their same-sex parent had difficulty advocating for themselves and became a "doormat" in the relationship. We tend to want to emulate our parent's relationship when it is perceived as healthy and positive.

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