FAMILYEnmeshment signals
Anonymous thoughts about enmeshment.
The family where everyone's feelings are everyone's responsibility.
Boundaries so diffuse that individual identity becomes hard to locate.
Learning to be a self inside a system that never allowed separation.
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Enmeshment is the relational condition in which boundaries between people are so diffuse that individual identity becomes difficult to locate. Your feelings are their feelings. Their problems are your problems. It often looks like closeness. It functions as a loss of self.
Anonymous thoughts about enmeshment posted here are from people who grew up in systems where individuation was threatening — and the specific difficulty of learning to be a self when that was never the point.