Unless our caregivers loved us conditionally and/or inconsistently, whether they are imbalanced intrinsically good folks diving into life with their heavy psychological baggage and are anything but ready for parenting or troubled souls like narcissists who view their kids as a supply and a transaction like all their relationships! Unfortunately, it is the case of most families around the globe. Consequently, we don't really learn true love; we rather form an unhealthy bond and insecure attachment style we confuse with love and that we'd be looking for during our adulthood! It explains why kids of narcissists fall so frequently for narcissists. We are attracted to what we are familiar with, sadly enough!