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When couples discover they've transferred family patterns rather than healing them

My husband and I both come from families with addiction issues and we thought we were breaking the cycle but we're realizing we've just transferred the addictive patterns to work and achievement and we're modeling the same emotional unavailability for our kids that we grew up with.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Breaking one pattern doesn't guarantee freedom from the underlying structure that created it.

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