
Speaker (Daminof LOH) discusses emotionally distant parenting—particularly an often emotionally absent mother—whose critical/invalidating responses (e.g., calling a child "too clingy" or "too loud") lead the child to feel neglected and rejected. This produces a "rejection wound" in the child, who learns that interpersonal contact hurts and therefore becomes self-reliant and emotionally withdrawn, a pattern consistent with avoidant attachment.










