Things You Do As Grown Up When You’ve Experienced Childhood Emotional Abuse

2. You can’t accept compliments. ​As children people only talked about your mistakes and flaws.

When you’ve spent your whole childhood with abusive parents who were constantly pointing out your mistakes, and were making you feel like nothing you do is enough for them – you can sure feel awkward when someone tells your worth because you are not used to it.You are not used to someone admiring and supporting you because you’ve spent the majority of your life feeling unsupported and without a shoulder to cry on – and this is one of the worst feelings in the world.