In a previous post, “How Parentification Disrupts Your Development and Holds You Back as an Adult”, I mentioned that I’d discuss emotional incest, which falls under the umbrella of parentification. Or at least in my view it’s a part of parentification.

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When I looked up the clinical definition of emotional incest, it turns out that the childhood experiences I had had in mind fall under both covert incest and emotional incest. As a child...