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Guaranteed Human.

Welcome back to family therapy.

I'm Elliot Connie, and this is season two of family therapy.

We have a new family joining us this season.

I think I would describe this family as being without an anchor.

And a really, really healthy family will have something of a matriarch or a patriarch

that brings a family together for family routines and family events.

Like, for example, you might have, like, a grandmother and everybody, everybody congregates

there for Christmas.

Or you might have a grandfather and everybody congregates there for a July 4th celebration,

or maybe one of the fathers or aunts and uncles, but there's something that becomes like

the center point or the anchor of the family that causes the family to reconnect and stay

connected. And I think the best way I would describe this family is being without those anchor points.

And you have people that it's almost like we love each other, but we don't know how to build a routine that includes one another.

And I think that started early on from the father of the adult children that will be featured in this season.

Because the family was very disconnected almost from the very beginning,

this family never really learned how to build routines and relationships.

And I think this was a journey of not just reconnecting,

but in the reconnection,

learning how to build habits and routines

that sustain the reconnection.

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