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When support groups become dominated by one member's needs

Three of us started meeting monthly to support each other through career transitions but one person dominates every conversation with crisis after crisis and the rest of us have stopped sharing because there's never space for anyone else.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group's stated intention of mutual support has collapsed into accommodation of one person's overwhelming need for attention.

Ideas that help explain it
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