Why do arguments with our parents affect us emotionally, even as adults, so much more than fights with other people?

[Anonymous]

[Billlewis]

Because, asks the case with the increased physical strength that allows you to kick your dad's ass if necessary (I only had to do that once, with my step dad), they never believe that you're a little smarter than they think you are, and therefore talk to you like you're a two year old, when you're in your forties.

[TommyMountainFigure]

Because the more a person means to you, the more it can hurt fighting with them. That is just normal human emotion!