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When you become your parents in arguments

I keep having the same fight with my partner about money and I can hear myself saying the exact words my father used to say and I hate it but I cannot stop

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unconscious identification with parental patterns overrides conscious intentions during emotional activation.

Ideas that help explain it
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