" Laura, Georgia, and Donna received no safe physical affection as children. They were also neglected emotionally. Georgia’s mother was angry and physically abusive; her father and Donna’s mother were away from home and engrossed in work. Physical intrusion or incest is not intimacy. An incestor is hardly emotionally available to the victim. Thus one can be emotionally abandoned while being violated intrusively. "

― Anne Katherine , Boundaries: Where You End And I Begin: How To Recognize And Set Healthy Boundaries