It’s complicated. My mom had some bad problems with addiction and never got out of it, so I think my sister has a misguided sense of wanting to subconsciously save others in a similar condition.

She is for sure not able to see reality in this situation specifically. It’s weird but the human brain is capable of serious sustained denial and dissonance.

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Childhood experiences run so deep it’s hard to comprehend. We often try to fix our childhood shortcomings in our adult romantic relationships.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

Or the traits that our parents needed to rescue us