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Discovering Relational Stability
Relational steadiness falters when one particular person wants the opposite to really feel secure or entire. A father or mother in a strained marriage or carrying childhood wounds could lean on a toddler for consolation. The kid, loyal and loving, tries to fulfill that want. Over time, this may harden into dysfunction.
Years in the past, I cared for a mom and son locked in a budding enmeshed relationship. She couldn’t draw boundaries. She absorbed his ache, projected her personal trauma onto him, and smothered him with anxious love and management. She tightly managed his world but set no limits on how he handled her or others. By 4, he was uncontrolled. She was exhausted and indignant, insisting he was candy whereas enabling each habits. Her concern of turning into her personal restrictive mother and father left him each fused to her and livid. Remedy was steered. It was rejected….
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