And if you had a terrible childhood, how can you relate to people who had a great childhood?
2006-10-29 17:51:42 · 10 answers · asked by KatGuy 7 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
you will never relate. you have no concept of the other because you didnt experience it.
only empathy and understanding and respect
2006-10-29 17:54:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't matter if you had a great childhood or a horrible childhood because people start out with a personality that is not soley defined by what others do to them. If you are an optimistic person with a horrible childhood you will have many friends, but if you had the best childhood (money, family, friends, education...) but you had a horrible personality then you will not have any friends. I have a great childhood (still kind of a child) and I feel horrible for peope that didn't or don't, but I am not going to base my relationships on what kind of childhood they had, I'm going to base it on how they are/how their life is now.
2006-10-31 12:21:53 · answer #2 · answered by Becky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one's perfect and there will always be a problem in your life no matter how big or small. Certainly if something as horrifying as having had an abusive childhood, this person will most likely always remember it and therefore it will become a significant mark on their life. It will be what guides them to a certain extent. Some use it to their advantage and learn to treat their children far better then they had been treated and others fall in between the cracks and want nothing but to feel satisfied and happy unlike their childhood and unfortunately turn towards sedatives such as painkillers and other drugs.
2016-05-22 06:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by Nicole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a great childhood. After my father died, when I was 19, I found myself relating more easily with people that had come from less advantageous situations.
Losing such a great parent gave me a tremendous appreciation of what I had and what others haven't had. I've come to understand that he was raised within an emotionally unstable family, and this explained the empathy he had for other people who were in rough situations.
I truly wish everyone could have a generous man like him for a father.
2006-10-29 18:16:27 · answer #4 · answered by Hondo for President 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would feel bad for them. I had a bad childhood and I know it is wrong but I resent people who did.
2006-10-29 17:54:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is from James J's wife, Beth...
WHO IN THIS WORLD HAS HAD A GREAT CHILDHOOD? No one, that's who. I'm sorry, but you have to understand. Only through adversity do we learn and grow and understand what it means to be a person away from our parents. If it was all good, we'd never leave their houses!!!!!
2006-10-29 18:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
See it from their perspective. How?? Listen to their experience and do your best to live their experience. Imagine your life if you were them. In most cases when you hear their story you can be intrigued.
2006-10-29 18:27:42 · answer #7 · answered by Jersey 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you can relate in the assurance, of the common good that we all share in this life.
I AM
2006-10-29 17:58:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Listen. And the best reaction is to not compare but to accept and understand. :)
2006-10-29 18:05:18 · answer #9 · answered by thomas 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
u cant. not really anyways. Its like a happy person trying to relate to a sad, hopeless person. The sad, hopeless one resents the happy person because they have what they desire for themselves: HAPPINESS.
2006-10-29 18:00:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋