I Love My Parents, and I Love Them, and They Love Me

The pain from Jimmy's childhood led him down a road of entitlement that lasted through much of his early adulthood. "My trauma had revolved around intimacy and acceptance, so I felt a constant need to overcompensate," he says. The deeper the pain, the more helpless we feel against our problems,. And the more entitlement we adopt to compensate for those problems.