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Being Well Podcast: Rediscovering Your True Self: Parentification and the “Gifted Child”
When a child is particularly emotionally intelligent, and a parent is particularly emotionally vulnerable, an inversion of the typical relationship can occur where the child devotes themselves to meeting the parent’s needs rather than the other way around.