Parent-Child Enmeshment

According to Dr. Kenneth Adams, the leading expert on Parent-Enmeshment Issues, some of the common characteristics of being enmeshed with a parent include:

• Feeling like you always have to be there for your parent even when it is not good for you.

• After a conversation with your parent, you often feel guilty.

• Your parent often wants to be close to you than you want.

• You cannot stand up to your parent.

Being enmeshed with a parent can have significant impact on your relationships and your ability to be intimate with your partner. Often an individual who is enmeshed with a parent assumes the role of being the emotional support of that parent in order to comfort the parent's stress and emotional dysregulation due to their unaddressed marital problems.

According to Dr. Adams, the following are ways that enmeshment can impact individuals and their relationships:

• They often feel engulfed, smothered, or trapped in their relationships.

• They have difficulties making decisions.

• They are more susceptible to addictions.

• They have difficulties being intimate with their partners, and find it easier to view porn or have extra-marital affairs.

• They have co-dependent issues and feel obliged to please his parent.

• They feel like being in the middle between meeting his partner's need and the misplaced loyalty to his parents.

• They have difficulties being vulnerable and express their emotions.

Recovery from being enmeshed with a parent is possible, let's work together to heal your trauma of being enmeshed, regain your independence, your right to choose the life you want, and rediscover your True Self Please contact me to set up an appointment.
 

Please take the following assesments tests developed by Dr. Kenneth Adams, PhD, CSAT:

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Men's Enmeshment Impact Survey           Enmeshment Resilience Questionnaire

 

What is Enmeshment by Dr. Kenneth Adams, Phd, CSAT

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