This post really got to meOh no
I hurt for you xxxx
Both my parents have been sexually abused and I've never had kisses or cuddles off them. I mean nothing. Not even a peck on the cheek.
No proper connection or showing of love to me or my sibling.
Growing up feeling off and isolated like my folks don't do any type of normal hugs or affection.
I didnt know till I was 32 about the abuse my parents suffered. I know it was sexual and covered up at the school and church etc.
These pedophiles are men AND WOMEN (that females need to be called that too!)
And they destroy their victims And the consquences destoy those around them
I wish I could chat to my folks but they get angry and have never spoken to any professional. They are not parenting parents but I do love them but just wish I had that missing parts of a parent child relationship.
This is a consquence of what pedophiles do
it runs so much deeper for my parents, for all victims of this evil. There suffering is forever. AND sadly there are many who are never known. The victims can't speak up just like my folks
Sorry to derail a bit BUT anyone covering up IS COMPLICIT.
I am so, so sorry your parents found it difficult to show you love. I am sure they absolutely do love you very much, and can understand why they are this way considering what they went through. I had affection growing up but when I got older, to my teens, I stopped getting hugs, and sometimes all I wanted was a hug from my mum. Even as a forty something year old I still want hugs from her, and I was thinking about that this morning as my 17 year old daughter was sleeping but very restless (she can't sleep without me next to her, she's autistic and currently has an eating disorder) she woke up a bit distressed so I lifted my arm and said "do you need a mummy hug?", she nodded so I tucked her under my arm and she lay her head on my chest, just as she did as a child, and fell back asleep. I will always make sure she has "mummy hugs" as long as she needs them, and I'm sending a mummy hug to you, I know I'm not your mum, but as a mum I want you to have one, so here is a (((gentle hug))) from across the interweb 
Looking younger than 24 is nothing to be sad about. Unless you're a young man who works on This Morning!
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