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What Is Emotional Parentification? Signs It Happened To You & How It's Showing Up Now

JulPo/E+/Getty ImagesYou feel anxious all the time but don’t actually know what you need to fix it. You’d like to rest more but it’s hard when you feel like being productive and contributing is how you stay in everyone’s good graces. And even when others do try to care for you, it’s uncomfortable — you kind of wish they just wouldn’t try. If any of these thoughts sound familiar, you might have experienced parentification. If that’s a new term for you, you’re not alone, though parentification has become a hot topic of conversation online in recent years. So, what is emotional parentification, a...

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