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When couples with childhood trauma disagree on parenting approaches

My wife and I both had difficult childhoods and we're trying to break cycles with our own kids but we find ourselves fighting about discipline in front of them, bringing our own unhealed stuff into every parenting decision. We can see what we're doing but can't seem to stop ourselves from recreating the chaos we grew up in.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trying to parent from their wounds rather than their healing, creating the very instability they hoped to prevent.

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