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[quote=Anonymous]You say your parents weren't great role models. You make them sound disconnected from their own children. Emotionally neglected children go one of two ways: either hyper-responsible or hypo-responsible. Because the parents were more into themselves and their own needs, problems, issues, you stepped up long ago to manage yourself and some extent your younger brother, but you were still a kid yourself. You and your brother are still acting our your roles from childhood. You can feel responsible for him, almost as a parent. You still feel the guilt, the need, to step up to fill the void your parents created through their emotional absence. Don't blame him, blame your parents. He's doing the best with what he knows, what he learned. These are long held patterns and ways of relating learned decades ago. You cannot break them until you see them.[/quote]
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