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Growing Up With a Parent Who Struggled: How Your Childhood Still Shapes You Today

By Victoria Whisman, LMFT | March 17, 2026
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Maybe your parent drank too much. Maybe they didn’t drink at all, but they were emotionally checked out, unpredictable, or just never quite there in the ways you needed them to be. Maybe the word “dysfunction” feels too dramatic for what your family was, and yet — something wasn’t right, and you knew it, even…

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