A Kiss from Rose | Mommy and Daddy Issues

Unhealed wounds don’t disappear — they disguise themselves.

💔 Let’s be honest. Many are walking around carrying deep emotional wounds not from strangers, but from the very people who were supposed to love them the most.

Mommy never said “I’m proud of you.”

Daddy never said “I love you.”

Maybe they weren’t present.

Maybe they were there — but cold, critical, or emotionally unavailable.

And now?

You’re grown… but the inner child in you is still aching for validation, still yearning to be seen, still triggered by rejection, still performing for love, still building walls instead of bridges.

🧠 The Fallout of Unhealed Parental Pain:

• You mistrust people — because you couldn’t trust the ones who raised you.

• You overcompensate — thinking achievement will make you lovable.

• You sabotage good relationships — because love feels foreign.

• You reject others before they reject you — trauma taught you to beat them to it.

• You struggle with God as a Father — because your earthly father didn’t reflect Him.

These aren’t just “issues” — they’re soul-level battles.

📖 BUT GOD SEES IT.

Psalm 27:10 (KJV) — “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.”

🙌🏽 You are not abandoned.

You are not too broken.

You are not unworthy of love.

God steps into the places where man failed you.

He parents you with patience, comforts you with truth, and restores what was never nurtured.

💬 Let’s Talk About Healing:

1. Forgiveness is not forgetting — it’s freeing.

   
   

   You’re not excusing the pain, but you are refusing to let it define you.

2. You can reparent yourself.

   
   

   Give yourself what they couldn’t: affirmation, boundaries, grace, and emotional safety.

3. Get therapy AND get prayer.

   
   

   Some wounds need a therapist’s guidance and a Savior’s touch.

4. Speak over your future children.

   
   

   The cycle stops with you.

   
   

   You will not parent from pain — you will parent from healing.

   
   

🛑 And if YOU were the absent or broken parent — there is grace for you too.

Own it.

Apologize with humility.

Change with action.

Because it’s never too late to do better.

🙏🏽 PRAYER FOR HEALING PARENTAL WOUNDS:

Father God,

I lift up every heart silently grieving the love they didn’t receive.

Heal the daughter still waiting for her mother’s affection.

Heal the son still craving his father’s approval.

Touch the places in us that are fragile, defensive, and angry.

Break the generational strongholds of emotional neglect.

Restore our ability to give and receive love freely, joyfully, and completely.

Remind us: we are not what we lacked.

We are who You called us to be.

Whole. Chosen. Worthy. Loved.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.

💌 GRANDMA’S CORNER:

Just because they didn’t show you love right don’t mean you’re unlovable.

God’s got a healing balm for every tear, every void, and every childhood ache.

Be the love you never got.

And give yourself the hug they never did.