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When a child has grown up with parents who exhibit few or no boundaries in the way that they are in

relationship with that child. And it can be traumatic in so many different ways, but one of the

biggest ways that it is traumatic is how insidious it is because the enmeshment growing up

with a parent who doesn't have any boundaries or doesn't have appropriate boundaries with you

can feel really special and really close.

And at the same time, it can feel like this big burden and obligation to please a

parent or show up for a parent. And so the trauma can manifest in many different ways for adult

children who grew up within meshing parents. And we can get into some of those ways in the second.

But I would say it's really insidious and creates a huge distortion for a lot of adult

children about the quality of the relationship that they had with their parent and who

they are as a result of growing up this way.

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