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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How he treats your Mom can be an even bigger indicator of the men you are attracted to.

My Dad adores me, but was distant. And gone a lot (Navy) or working long hours. And even when he was around he was drinking (functional alcoholic).

My parents fought a lot. My Mom has her own wackiness. And they just aren’t compatible.

So who am I attracted to? Men who are emotionally distant or physically distant or who I fight with.

Took me lots of self reflection and therapy to finally find my husband at 38. [/quote]

This terrifies me as a mom whose husband doesn’t show “love” towards me the way I would hope my dd would find it. I’m currently stuck in trying to figure out if it’s worse to divorce or worse to stay.

There’s no abuse, it’s not completely toxic,  but I can probably count on one hand the amount of times DD has heard him call me beautiful, she’s 9.

It’s just not the example I’d want her or my sons to follow.

But then again they could realize this isn’t real love and go for the complete opposite.
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