What are emotional scars? When we think of a scar, we think of it as something visible on the outside of one’s body. An emotional scar buries itself deep into your core and many times no one on the outside knows it is there. Emotional scars occur in different ways, such as being intentionally belittled by degrading words and or behaviors, or anything that makes a person feel less than and not valued. In my case, I did not see myself as having emotional scars, I just knew I wanted to get out of my parents’ house, leave behind the crazy environment and get away from my controlling father. Everything that we hear about children being like sponges and picking up on all the character traits of the people in their surrounding is true. I had no idea that my parents’ behavior and the things that I lived, watched, and heard growing up, would shape my life and the person that I would become as a wife and mother. My parents arguing on a regular basis made the perfect impression on me as to what I thought a relationship looks like. I had nothing else to compare it to. What I garnered from that I is that wanted to be loved, feel wanted, and valued. 

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