Cutting the Apron Strings
Conversations with Dr. Jennifer
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Is There Anything You Can Do to Help Your Child?
A typical scenario in which a child is kind of what i would call a hero child. So they've grown up with a parent who is needy or demanding and that child learns to be the solver or the fixer, as the hero child. What often happens is they'll go and marry somebody who is also needy. And you never get to kind of live your life and actually be in a partnership, because the marriage then replicates some kind of caretaking.
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