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Is Your Father Wound Impacting Your Relationships? with Psychotherapist Elliott Anderson Ep. 125

Love and Life with Dr. Karin and Pastor Elliott

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The Father Wound and Mother Wound Are Primal Wounds

Elliott: In Simon says, you speak to the massive impact that dad had on all of us as children. Some people don't have that presence in their lives and they have a massively negative impact from an unhealthy father or an absent father or an abusive father. So how do you see this affecting the couples relationships, those couples that you work with? Elliott: The father wound and the mother wound are primal wounds. They're never going to be magically gone when we find a great partner. And so if there's been that absent or negative or abusive father, the woman tends to want her partner to fill that father wound too.

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