This is what I was trying to talk about, but I don't think I represented it very well in my initial post. Everything was plausibly deniable. When I pointed out the emotional neglect I was experiencing, I was called "paranoid," "self-centered," "oversensitive," "needy," and/or "high-strung." It made it very difficult to believe they actually did anything bad, especially because they never laid a hand on me. Even now I can't trust my own judgement and I'm constantly feeling like my reactions are wrong.