Dr. Kenneth Adams - Man And His Mother

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Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Creating a healthy relationship as an adult requires a fine balance of intimacy and sovereignty. This can be really tough for men who grew up with maternal enmeshment issues—they've got to untangle a maladaptive relationship with their mother. Dr. Kenneth Adams is an expert on helping people do exactly this. We dive deep into what enmeshment looks like, the kinds of confusion and chaos it creates in relationships, and how to break free. Dr. Kenneth M. Adams began his professional career in 1981 treating children, adolescents, and their families. In 1985 he began private practice with the Children of Alcoholic Parents program, an outpatient program for the treatment of adults who had grown up in alcoholic families. It was there that he began to notice that many of these clients had addictions and enmeshment issues, two of his primary specialties today. He wrote his first professional article in 1987 on covert incest and sex addiction in alcoholic families and has since written three books and numerous peer-reviewed articles. He is a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist (CSAT), a CSAT supervisor, and CSAT training facilitator as well as an EMDR practitioner. Connect with Dr. Adams -Website: https://www.overcomingenmeshment.com/ -Book: When He's Married to Mom - How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment: https://amzn.to/3h8woyP -Book: Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners: https://amzn.to/3DSi5Z6 Did you enjoy the podcast? If so, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the self-leadership they’re looking for. Are you looking to find purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to The Man Talk Show.
0:12.9	I am Connor Beaton.
0:14.1	And joining me today is Dr. Kenneth Adams, who is a fully licensed psychologist located in Michigan.
0:20.8	He specializes in the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems. who is a fully licensed psychologist located in Michigan.
0:26.1	He specializes in the areas of child abuse, dysfunctional family systems, sex addiction, and emmeshment.
0:27.8	He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and has written the books
0:32.5	silently seduced and when he's married to mom.
0:36.4	So as you can imagine, based on those titles, we're going to get
0:40.2	into some stuff today. I'm going to have Dr. Adams back on the show to talk about sexual addiction
0:45.2	in a separate podcast. But what we really talk about today is the relationship between man and mom.
0:52.0	So we dive deep into the dynamics that a lot of young boys go through
0:57.7	an experience when growing up in maybe, you know, being the child of a single mom or being a
1:05.6	child of a mother who creates an emmeshment-based relationship. So where she prioritizes her own needs
1:13.1	above his, sexualizes the young boy, et cetera. And so we're going to talk about the impact that
1:20.0	a meshment has, what it looks like for a lot of men who have grown up in that environment,
1:25.7	how to start to break free from it, what the signs are,
1:29.1	what the, you know, what kind of chaos that can be causing within his marriage. And so even if you
1:34.6	don't think that this is you, even if you don't think that you had this type of relationship with
1:39.9	your mom, this is really incredible information to know and learn and understand because what we actually
1:47.0	end up talking about is a man's development, is a man's coming into his own sense of sovereignty as an
1:53.6	adult and how to develop really healthy relationships with mom, but also as an extension of that, how to develop really
2:03.8	healthy relationships with your partner, because some of those same rules apply. So this is a
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