My daughter and I are both perfectionists and we feed off each other's anxiety especially around her college applications - I try to be supportive but I think my own anxiety about her future makes everything worse and she's starting to hide things from me.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people with similar psychological patterns are unconsciously intensifying each other's struggles rather than providing mutual support.
“Where Are You with Experiential learning — Dewey and Kolb?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.