The Heavy Air in the Waiting Room You can usually feel it before anyone even says a word. A family walks into the clinic and takes their seats. The parents sit just a little too far apart on the couch. The kids are staring at the floor or lost in their phones. Nobody is yelling….
Author: JohnKen
Healing from Intimate Partner Co-dependency and Manipulation Establishing Autonomy Benchmarks in Outpatient Couples Therapy
You stop texting that one friend. Not because your partner ever explicitly told you to, but because every time you do, the energy in the house gets weird. A heavy sigh from the kitchen. A slammed cabinet door. A sudden, unexplained coldness. It is easier to just let the friendship fade than deal with the…