emotional cripple

I was not going to live out my life as an emotional cripple.

For a guy who wanted more out of their relationship, he was an emotional cripple.

She did not want to live the rest of her life as an emotional cripple.

She couldn't take the chance on becoming involved with an emotional cripple.

I didn't catch his name but he looks like one of Mary's emotional cripples.

He described the character of David as an "emotional cripple", originally with little depth.

Dear God, the last thing I needed was another emotional cripple following me around.

Together they inadvertently ensured that their four children would be little more than emotional cripples.

Passion had become a spectator sport supported by emotional cripples.

Some are left emotional cripples until therapy helps them drain away the old poison.

When did we all suddenly become emotional cripples.

"I'm afraid I'm a bit of an emotional cripple myself.

A repressed emotional cripple, trained to rationalise away what real feelings she did have?

No wonder most politicians are emotional cripples, Stoner thought.

I'm an antisocial emotional cripple, a bisexual virgin, a basket case.

You were raised an emotional cripple, then landed with a sociopath.'

"Quit treating me like I'm some emotional cripple at the deathbed of a relative, all right?

Unwilling but helpless vassals all, her children turn out, predictably, to be emotional cripples.

His mother's affliction was "panic disorder with agoraphobia, which made her an emotional cripple for many years."

But Howard's performance also suggests that Higgins is an emotional cripple.

"He married an emotional cripple and exploited her and got her killed," I said.

She clearly considered Tracy an emotional cripple.

Something about being an emotional cripple?

I need the advice of an emotional cripple like a steeplejack needs an aqualung.'

When feminism came along, these traditional men were trashed as emotional cripples or agents of an oppressive patriarchy.