More abandonment. So, you turned to your sister.” Here George paused, an idea forming. “Is it possible you relied on her too much?” Ken felt a prickle behind his eyes. “Maybe you turned Abby into a mother figure. Or… maybe something else?” George was fishing. “For sure, you needed love. And none of this was your fault; you were a kid. Childhood is all about survival, and you did what it took to survive.” George stated these hunches as facts, as if he were reciting the periodic table. Where was all of this coming from? “At some point, your needs and expectations became too much for your
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