Understanding and accepting these characteristics, looking at their roots and learning better ways of living are critical to recovery. Nonetheless, the picture they paint is fairly consistent. Adult children guess at what normal is. Adult children have difficulty in following a project through from beginning to end. Adult children lie when it would be just as easy to tell the truth.
Adult children judge themselves without mercy.
Adult children have difficulty having fun. Adult children take themselves very seriously. Adult children have difficulty with intimate relationships. Adult children over-react to changes over which they have no control. Adult children constantly seek approval and affirmation.