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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's weird is that it took therapy to "discover" his trauma is from his parents and the solution is to pull back completely.

There are lots of reasons to pull back from parents, but you typically are aware of them.

Either he was bizarrely clueless, or his therapist is pushing him into a more drastic step than necessary.

And this comes from someone who has limited involvement with his parents—I've known them for 44 years, needing some space from them wasn't a revelation...[/quote]

I entirely agree. It dawned on me as a young teen that my parents weren't normal people. I had to suffer through the teen years with them, and didn't distance myself until I was 32-33, but believe me, OP, no therapist had to tell me that my original trauma was stress triggered by my parents! And my kids, growing up in a normal home, sensed their grandparents were off when they were very little, preschool to elementary.

So either this is manufactured, or your husband is pretty dumb.

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I don't think it's dumb at all. Your judgment here is not at all useful and illustrates your limited thinking abilities and lack of empathy. Did you pick up that lack of empathy from your parents?

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