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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Critical parents

People with low self image and confidence generally become obsessive in their relationships.
Early childhood experiences also play a big role in determining how one behaves in his relationships later. Over critical parents who constantly keep rejecting their child, scar them for life. As adults, when they get into their first relationship, they find acceptance, but eventually become possessive, if that bond is threatened in anyway.
A series of failed relationships can also lead to an obsessive personality. They grow out to be insecure individuals who fear being ditched repeatedly.
There are some obsessive lovers who turn out to be sadistic. They can even go to the extent of harming the person. Such people usually suffer from psychopathic or anti-social tendencies.

Could you please explain to me what they mean by critical parents here?

Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/relationships/man-woman/Dealing-with-an-obsessive-lover/articleshow/4772399.cms
  

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Hi, Over -critical parents It should be written with the hyphen. Excessively critical parents . Clive

  • Hi, Over -critical parents It should be written with the hyphen.
  • Excessively critical parents .
  • Clive
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Hi,

Over-critical parents It should be written with the hyphen.



Excessively critical parents.

Clive
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Thank you Clive.
But I would like to know the meaning of the expression "critical parents" itself.
As far as I know "critical" could mean "very serious" or "a review of something" but this meaning doesn't fit here.
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Hi,

But I would like to know the meaning of the expression "critical parents" itself.

As far as I know "critical" could mean "very serious" or "a review of something" but this meaning doesn't fit here.


Parents who criticize their children, parents who make adverse comments about their children and their actions.




Clive

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