You Married Their Childhood (and They Married Yours)
Understanding the Relational Blueprints We Inherit When you stood at the altar and said “I do,” you likely believed you were entering a partnership with exactly one person. You saw the individual standing across from you—their personality, their values, their dreams for the future. But as a family systems therapist, I can tell you that the altar was much more crowded than it appeared. When you married your spouse, you also married their mother’s anxiety, their father’s silence, and the...