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Can you be affected in your adulthood by growing up in an abusive home?
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People who grow up in an abusive home are usually profoundly affected for the worse because of it. This happens in several ways.
Because children start out trusting that their parents will care for them and keep them safe, being abused by them is a betrayal of that trust. They end up believing that nobody can be trusted, and so act suspiciously about anyone who invites their trust. Because they trust nobody, they cannot be trusted, because they always act on the basis that they are about to be betrayed for some purpose.
Victims of all abuse, and especially emotional abuse, hear over and over that they are worthless people. Because they think they are worthless, they do not believe that good things can happen to them.
Quite often, being hurt often as a child makes the child believe that the world is divided into those who hurt others and those who are hurt by them. Some abuse victims will pre-emptively hurt others because the others cannot be trusted; others will feel satisfied only when they are being hurt, since they believe that good things cannot happen to them.
When the abuse is sexual, it can poison the child's attitude towards sex for the rest of his or her life. Either they come to view sex as terrifying, or a meaningless commodity that can be sold or stolen. Either way, the prospects of sexual happiness in an adult relationship are not good.
It is no better if children are constantly exposed to the abuse of one parent by the other. Parents give the example to their children which their children learn to live by. If mother treats father with contempt and prevents him from ever being happy, then the children learn that this is how women ought to treat men, and the boy children learn to hold themselves in contempt and believe that they do not deserve happiness. If father habitually beats mother, then the children learn that this is how men ought to treat women, and the girls learn that this is the kind of treatment they themselves deserve.
Not all children are affected the same way, and some can overcome the bad patterns of thought which experiencing and witnessing abusive behaviour for a long time can establish. Much depends on the particular circumstances of the case. However, nobody can live through this and remain unscarred.
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