A Family's Heartbreak Quotes

“In an alienated family, the parent with the damaged object relations elevates the child’s status. The child becomes part of the parental dyad and aligns himself with the dependent parent – fulfilling her needs and creating a supportive and dependent bond between the two. At this point, there are no boundaries between the parents and the child. The healthy parent’s power is undermined. For a child, this power and the ability to make decisions is intoxicating. If the healthy parent tries breaking this dependent bond and taking back some parental authority, the bond between the child and the dependent parent grows stronger.”
― Michael Jeffries, A Family's Heartbreak: A Parent's Introduction to Parental Alienation