Love Coach Blog

I am a Love Coach and not a family coach. I don’t typically deal with family issues, except for relationships between husbands and wives.

But I am a mom and, as a mom, I can’t help but notice when my clients are feeling disconnected from their children. And I can’t help but notice that those same clients also tend to feel disconnected in general.

Coincidence? I don’t think so. I don’t have the research to prove this, but I suspect that people who are disconnected from their children have trouble connecting with others, both adults and children. I suspect their hearts are closed. That does not make them bad people. In fact, people whose hearts are closed are closed up because of past hurts, not because they are heartless.

But having a closed-up heart does make people and their children feel as if something is missing. The dream of what having a child is supposed to be like – the feelings of connection and joy – is missing for the most part for these parents and their kids.
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