(Not recommended for small children to view.)
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This video remarkably depicts the complicated effects of "enmeshment" in relationships. Seems today we cannot seem to bond in friendship without "losing our identities in the other". However, this only cripples us as individuals, and limits us from being what we can for others, ourselves and God.
Parents can easily become enmeshed in those around them, as small children and teens can also become enmeshed in systems of the world that support them to defy and speak bad of their parents.
You can find yourself joined with a drug culture, using drugs when you thought you never would. This is enmeshment. Another word for it is "co-dependency", where you "become like those you hang out with".
Here are two outlines which briefly describe enmeshment from a "family" perspective.
[Written by Jim Hogue, MA, MFT ]
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