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emotional labor as childhood survival
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Archetypes
The Codependent
Codependency is not about loving too much. That framing is sentimental and incorrect. It is a self-organization strategy in which one person's identity, emotional regulation, and sense of worth become entirely dependent on managing another person's wellbeing. The wound produces the appearance of selflessness. The structure is something else.
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Archetypes
The Parentified Child
Parentification is not always dramatic. It does not require overt abuse or a visibly dysfunctional home. It requires only that the developmental contract be quietly inverted - that the child's job becomes managing the adult's experience rather than being managed by it. The cost of that inversion follows the child into every adult room they ever enter.
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