What Does Emotional Loneliness Have to Do with Wealth Redistribution?

Wealth fosters emotional immaturity, and many wealthy parents are emotionally immature. While they provide for their children materially, emotionally immature parents are unable to meet the fundamental emotional needs of their children.

Being raised by emotionally immature parents creates emotional loneliness - a chasm you try to fill for the rest of your life through things like work, romance, achievement, validation, wealth.

For many of us, the few moments of emotional connection with our parents were shaped by money - gifts, family vacations, toys. Love was shaped by money, making our relationship to money emotionally fraught.

Unhealed emotional neglect can make financial choices such as giving feel scary and high stakes, as it requires us to confront the ways we use wealth to comfort and reassure ourselves. Financial planners can’t solve these questions with math, as these are often emotional issues. 

In order to break the cycle of replacing love with money, we need to heal from emotional neglect and discover new ways of accessing fulfillment, meaning, and emotional connection without relying on excess wealth for comfort.

Fortunately, there are many others who relate to your experience and want to do this work alongside you. On the other side of this healing journey, your choices about wealth redistribution - and money in general - will feel much clearer.