Signs of Overly-Critical Parents and How to Handle Them

Toxic parents are emotionally absent

Are your parents good at providing but difficult to approach if you have problems? Are you afraid that they’d criticize you for mishandling your issues? If the answers to these questions are yes, you probably have hyper-critical parents. You will never get warmth, understanding, and approval from a critical parent. They will be cold and distant as if they don’t care about you at all. Well, in some families, unfortunately, this is the case. Some other overly critical parents though have emotional issues of their own, which inevitably affects their behavior towards their children. But deep inside, these emotionally unavailable parents still love and care about them.