#ambivalent

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost. ↗

— Anna Freud

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Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused. ↗

— James McGreevey

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