Family Relationships - How Do They Work?

As human infants, we are completely relyang or dependent on someone showing up to meet our needs. And for the many of us who didn't have caregivers that were attuned to themselves, knew how to meet their own needs so that they could even then show up for some one else,. usually what happens is we adapt, we modify ourselves. We begin to wear a mask, or play a role, or suppress or squash our needs. So why are we talking about this? And where does family come back into the picture? Because so many of us aren't our authentic selves. It's literally when we are still in relationship with those poor people that all those older ways of being come up