{"id":97879,"date":"2023-04-11T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=97879"},"modified":"2023-04-12T10:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:07:51","slug":"matthew-perry-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/matthew-perry-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Perry: Family, Parents, and Feeling Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who were Matthew Perry&#8217;s parents? Was his family supportive of his acting career?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Perry&#8217;s family is detailed to a great extent in the author&#8217;s memoir <em>Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing<\/em>. However, Perry doesn&#8217;t have the fondest memories of growing up as an only child of divorced parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about Matthew Perry&#8217;s family troubles growing up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-lonely-child\"><strong>A Lonely Child<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthew<\/strong> <strong>Perry&#8217;s family relationships may have caused his struggles in relationships, the actor claims. <\/strong>His mother is a former beauty queen turned high-powered career woman. His father is a former musician turned actor who never achieved much success outside of a famous perfume commercial. (Shortform note: Perry\u2019s father did get a chance to shine in prime time, though, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/tv\/g13098604\/friends-tv-show-facts-trivia\/?slide=32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he made a cameo in season 4 of <em>Friends<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>) They got married and had him almost immediately, but then divorced when he was nine months old. After the divorce, his father moved to California to pursue a career in show business, leaving Perry and his mother, then only 21 years old, in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Perry often felt alone and parentless during his childhood.<\/strong> One of his earliest memories is of traveling alone from Canada to LA to visit his father. He was only five years old and he flew as an unaccompanied minor. He remembers being scared and feeling relief when he finally saw LA from the plane, knowing that he would soon be with a parent. He believes that memory is behind him feeling at ease\u2014less lonely\u2014in homes or apartments with a view of the city lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back home in Canada, feeling alone was a constant. His mother worked long hours and, although he was usually under the care of his grandparents or nannies, he was often home alone. Knowing that his father had taken a plane to go to California, every time he saw a plane overhead he worried that his mother was on it, leaving him behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>The Trauma of Invisibility<\/strong><br><br>Perry\u2019s description of his childhood suggests that his parents were emotionally neglectful, which might have caused him to suffer the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/toxic-relationships\/201710\/are-you-being-emotionally-abandoned#:~:text=emotional%20abandonment.%20We%20may%20not,clients%20often%20tell%20me%20that%20they%20felt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trauma of invisibility<\/a>.\u201d In this phenomenon, children experience emotional isolation because they feel:&nbsp;<br><br><strong>That they\u2019re outsiders in their family.<\/strong> We will see later that Perry felt like an outsider, especially after his mother married for the second time and had other children.<br><br><strong>Abandoned<\/strong> because their parent demanded that they cede their own feelings and needs to tend to those of that parent. Perry often used humor to tend to the negative feelings his mother experienced, which meant the parent-child relationship was focused on making the parent, rather than him, feel supported.<br><br><strong>Unloved for who they truly are<\/strong>. As we\u2019ll see later in the guide, Perry has a hard time letting people get close to him because he thinks he is, deep down, unloveable.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Craving His Mother\u2019s Attention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With a father he only saw rarely, his mother was his primary caregiver, but he had a difficult relationship with her. <strong>Perry believes that spending his childhood trying to get his mother\u2019s attention led to him being attracted to unavailable women<\/strong>. She worked for the Prime Minister and was away from home often, which made young Matthew feel lonely. That feeling intensified when she got remarried and had children with her new husband. Although Perry says he loves his mother\u2019s husband and his half-siblings, he felt out of place in the new family. This led to him later deciding to move to LA to live with his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Perry implies that his desire for fame might be another consequence of his relationship with his mother.<\/strong> He remembers making jokes to entertain his mother and to make her smile when she was stressed or sad. He believes all the shows and movies he made later were simply to get her to pay attention to him. But even at the height of <em>Friends, <\/em>he didn\u2019t feel that she was interested in or proud enough of his accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>How Children Cope With Emotionally Immature Parents<\/strong><br><br>Perry\u2019s desire for fame and fixation with unavailable women reflects a coping strategy of children who experience emotional neglect. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Lindsey Gibson says that many children cope with emotional neglect by constructing future scenarios in which their life is better. This ray-of-hope escape hatch sustains them through difficult times. But carrying these dreams into adulthood can lead to having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/impossible-expectations\/\">unrealistic expectations<\/a> and not understanding why they continue to feel alone.<br><br>In Perry\u2019s case, he fantasized about being famous and being loved by the women he idealized because it gave him an escape from the reality that he didn\u2019t receive enough attention or affection. But as we\u2019ll see, fame and relationships with unavailable women didn\u2019t help him feel less alone.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who were Matthew Perry&#8217;s parents? Was his family supportive of his acting career? Matthew Perry&#8217;s family is detailed to a great extent in the author&#8217;s memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. However, Perry doesn&#8217;t have the fondest memories of growing up as an only child of divorced parents. 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