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When financial sacrifice becomes overcompensation

I won't eat at restaurants or buy new clothes but I'll spend hundreds on things for my kids because I don't want them to feel deprived like I did.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Attempting to heal childhood wounds through parenting often perpetuates the very deprivation patterns being avoided.

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