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The Struggle of Keeping the Family Afloat

30 Oct 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube talk by Amber Hollingsworth about over-functioning in family systems. The speaker explains how a partner may take on extra responsibilities when a spouse is under-functioning, particularly when young children are present, because the caretaker feels they cannot allow bills or childcare to fall through.

And you really particularly feel stuck if, let's say it's your spouse that's under functioning and you have kids, like young kids that live in the house, then you feel like, I really can't just let these bills not be paid. I really can't just let these things not be taken care of. Even if you're to the point where you really want to maybe let some of those consequences happen, you've got kids involved here, and so you get in this over functioning position because you have to make the family system work.