Father Wounds: Can A Man Have A Strong Need For Approval If He Grew Up With An Emotionally Unavailable Father?
If a man’s father was rarely, if ever, emotionally available during his formative years, this is likely to have been a time when he didn’t receive what he needed in order to develop in the right way. This would have caused him to experience a lot of pain. However, he wouldn’t have had any other choice than to do the best that he could to handle what was going on. Now that he is an adult, there is the chance that he has ‘forgotten’ all about what took place during this stage of his life. It’s All in the Past