As A Child This Was Not Your Responsibility

• Mediating conflict with adults around you.

• Fulfilling your parent’s lost dreams.

• Keeping dangerous secrets for a loved one.

• Raising your siblings or keeping the entire house clean (parentification).

• “Stepping up” to fill the shoes of an absent parent.

• Regulating the emotions of adults around you.

• Parenting your parents.

• Upholding the same beliefs.

• Telling lies to uphold a family image.