Emotional Security Theory: Marital Conflict and Children

What was your childhood like? Did you grow up with parents who treated each other with respect and affection? Did you witness the love between them? Or, did you notice a lack of it? Most of us keep memories of the relationships between our parents. In fact, these images not only offer us our first models of what human bonds and interactions are like but also mark us in many ways. Growing up in a home that’s engaged in constant dialectical battle, means, from an early age, being immersed in an adverse emotional climate loaded with grudges and conflicts. Consequently,…