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When Your Parent Made You Their Emotional Caregiver

My mother emotionally parentified me as her confidant about her marriage problems and now as an adult I feel responsible for her happiness but resentful of the burden.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Being forced into premature emotional maturity creates a confusing mix of capability and resentment that persists into adulthood.

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