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18 Habits from Childhood That Affect Our Relationships Now

The patterns we learn and working around them is part of a fresh new approach to couples therapy. Which schemas sound like you?
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Enmeshment
Young's patients who have a weak sense of personal identity and habitually cling to or "mesh" with other people do so in order to feel like a complete person.
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From the September 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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