Enmeshment: Being All Tangled up With Another in Ways That Are Very Unhealthy

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:25.1	I had a good experience yesterday. I had several good experiences yesterday, but this is the one I'm
0:30.4	going to talk to you about. I taught a class at the Crafters Library in Santa Barbara on sewing a denim tote.
0:42.6	You had to bring your own sewing machine.
0:46.0	So three ladies signed up.
0:47.8	One was visiting from Indianapolis,
0:51.0	and she figured she would piggyback the two events.
0:59.5	However, little goof in deciding which day to fly in.
1:05.5	So she told us in advance she would be half an hour to an hour or more late for the three-hour class. So when she
1:13.6	arrived, we sort of all chipped in. One point, team effort. She was doing one part. Another lady
1:22.3	was totally finished, Chrissy, was totally finished. And I said, would you mind?
1:30.9	And she read my mind and did a part for her.
1:32.0	I mean, it was very cute.
1:39.0	So except for the lady who came late, she had one more part to do.
1:43.8	Everybody made a beautiful tote. And it was a lot of fun changing techniques or concepts mid mid so
1:51.8	I did that a couple of times I said you know now that I'm looking at you doing this I think
1:57.5	there's a better way to do this. Let's try this.
2:04.0	And it was really a very good experience. I enjoyed myself immensely.
2:07.4	And I learned that, for sure, do not want more than three or four people at one time.
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