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Our first and most significant relationship is with our mother.

Difficulties in relationships can often be traced to earlier experiences.

We make sense of ourselves and the world through relationships.

I remember my psychotherapy training interview well, even though it was over two decades ago. The course director asked me to tell her about my relationship with my mother, and I said it was: “Fine. Ordinary. Nothing to see here.” There was plenty to see, it had just lay dormant, veiled as my version of “normal” because it was the only relationship with a mother I’d known. Memories about that relationship became the unintentional main events of years of personal therapy that followed.

People access psychotherapy for a multitude of reasons, but often it’s to do with difficulties in relationships. A teen feels criticised by their overbearing parent; a young adult is repeatedly attracted to unavailable men; a guy is accused by his boyfriend of being smothering and intense.

Difficulties, or difficult-to-bear........

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