💔  What it means to have grown up with being exposed to infidelity by one or both parents

Growing up with parental infidelity meant you saw and heard things about sex that kids shouldn't be exposed to—forcing you to make sense of adult matters before your mind was ready, leaving you with a distorted map for navigating intimacy.

Those early experiences may have left you feeling either uncomfortably aware of sexual undertones or completely turned off by them. You sometimes wonder what "normal" is when it comes to sex and relationships, since your early reference points were far from healthy. Your blueprint mixed adult behaviors with childish understanding, creating lasting distortions about love and sexuality.

This exposure taught you that sexuality is either something shameful to hide or the main currency for getting love and attention. You may secretly question if you can love healthily at all—when your earliest role models portrayed sex as a tool for manipulation, betrayal, or control rather than genuine intimacy.