Accepting the truth of your feelings and thoughts doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole person, and mature enough to know your own mind. - 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.

Many children of such parents learn to subjugate themselves to other people’s wishes (Young and Klosko 1993). Because they grew up anticipating their parent’s stormy emotional weather, they can be overly attentive to other people’s feelings and moods, often to their own detriment.