Dear Juliam:

You are welcome. You wrote that he never shared anything about a “traumatic experience.”

I learned that it is not necessary for a child to have a horror-movie-kind of trauma to constitute trauma. A child needs more than food, water, shelter and medical care; more than toys and clothes. And not being physically abused or neglected does not make it up for a child who repeatedly (as is the child’s nature) reaches out to the parent with love, only to be rejected, again and again.

anita