Key points

Childhood roles affect our relationship roles as adults.

Growing up parentified may cause you to try to get your needs met through your partner.

Maintaining an awareness of your relationship patterns can lead you to make gradual changes.

Though sung in her typical tongue-in-cheek style, Sabrina Carpenter’s new hit song ‘Manchild’ is revealing—and not in the way you might think. At one point, she insists that she isn’t choosing these emotionally inept men—they choose her. While the song is funny and upbeat, there’s something else there that’s being articulated. The need for control, order, and a sense of helplessness when you find yourself with the same type of partner over and over again is something many of us can relate to. When you think back to your childhood , do you

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