On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we talk with licensed psychologist Dr. Kenneth Adams about enmeshment, emotional incest, and observing family dynamics as a warning sign for future toxic behaviors.

Welcome to narcissist apissist Apocalypse Q&A everybody.

I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today we have Dr. Kenneth Adams.

How are you?

Well, good.

Nice to be here.

Appreciate your work and have an opportunity to talk about a measurement with you to see how it sits with your audience. Well, thank you for being here.

And for those that don't know you, you are a licensed psychologist. You are a leader, an expert,

and consultant in childhood abuse, dysfunctional family systems and sex addiction.

You are, you know, when it comes to enmeshment and family enmeshment,

you are the number one person to go to and foremost expert in it.

And people can reach you at overcoming enmeshment.com.

And the first time I was introduced to you was through our support group when we

were looking for information for people about their own enmeshment situations. And I stumbled upon

your books. And your books are when he's married to mom and silently seduced. I suggest everyone who's in these situations go read these books.

So I guess the first way that we're going to start off here is just to define what is

an emishment.

Well, so emishment is a broad descriptor that is used, and you can hear it bantered around in the, you know, common law of our public domain now, right?

You can hear people using the word emmeachment.

And it means that people are intertwined and too close at a cost to their own independence or their own journey.

And they've absorbed the loyalty implicitly demanded or explicitly demanded from this case, a family member,

at a cost to what they should be doing for themselves or for their romantic partner or even their professional

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