They act as though being a parent exempts them from respecting boundaries or being considerate. - Lindsay C. Gibson

Emotionally mature people may tell you how they feel about what you did, but they don’t pretend to know you better than you know yourself.

Only emotionally phobic, emotionally immature people believe that wanting empathy and understanding is a sign of weakness.

When you're using terms like 'narcissistic' or 'self-absorbed', they tend to paint the personality with a broad brush," Gibson says, adding that sometimes "the parent does have good qualities, the parent is sometimes [emotionally] available, but the problem is that those times happen on the parent's schedule, depending upon how secure or good that parent is feeling about themselves.