Merle Yost on Healing Childhood Trauma and Male Sexual Abuse

It's enshrined in various cultures, like Italian culture, Latin culture, that the son is there to meet the mother's needs, and all too often the father is not available. Again, we don't talk about this much, but it is really the underlying cause of a lot of rage, a lot of inability to be intimate in a relationship, because what happens to these boys growing up again- I'm mostly talking about boys here, but it all applies to girls- is that they will be able to get into a relationship with a woman.