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2 Why Your Family of Origin Impacts Your Life More Than Anything Else

The Place We Find Ourselves

CHAPTER

Triangulation and Parenting

If parents are not in a healthy intimate deeply engaged relationship with one another then they will need to look somewhere for attunement. oftentimes one of the parents will look to a child to meet their emotional needs. This kind of triangulation puts the child in a horrible bind that provides years of subsequent torment and here's the bind your mother shows you to be her spouse when you were a child.

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