The "lack of nurture" is a truly devastating thing that often leave us eternally "looking" for something that was missing...

I live at the other extreme end of Gen X from you; never identified with Boomer values... grew up in the shadow of the eternal realization that we were doomed to become the first generation to not be as prosperous as our parents. In time, I learned not to care.

A lot of self-work and counseling landed me the with concept "benign neglect" (or benign abuse) as the description for that lack of nurture. It's a thing. And so we were not only left to raise ourselves, but to figure out who were, as human beings. And how to reinvent ourselves. And how to authentically love... ourselves, and others.

Hugging you, from afar...
xo