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Understanding Overfunctioning

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

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How to Over Function and Under Function in a Relationship

We can over function in one domain and under function in another. We may have different places in the relationship where we, we sort of specialize in a sense. When it's that I need to feel that I'm a solver, my sense of self resides in being a solver in this domain, that gets more problematic. The opposite is to be needy. And they're both needy positions as in they're both dependent. In the sense of psychologically it is enmeshed right to use that language, or what we sometimes talk about as codependent.

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