Ever realize you’re in therapy because someone else refuses to grow up emotionally? In this clip, we unpack how emotionally immature adults cause pain in their relationships… and how others carry the emotional burden.
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00:00I had people coming in who were describing their loved one, could be a spouse, could be a parent, could be a boss, you know, and I was sitting there thinking, the wrong person is in the office with me.
00:16These people have been willing to come in, get a diagnosis for insurance, call themselves mentally disordered in order to get help dealing with these incredibly difficult people.
00:32And so it presented this kind of crazy picture of all the people who needed to be in therapy were running around.
00:41Causing other people to be in therapy.
00:43Causing other people to be in therapy. And I got very interested in the nature of the behavior of these problematic people.
00:52And I began to reflect to people, you know, this person sounds like a four-year-old or your dad's behavior really seems like a tantrum.
01:00Have you ever thought about it that way? And they would say, oh, yeah, we joke about, you know, dad's tantrums all the time.
01:05He really is like a three-year-old when he gets going.
01:08So people knew it, but they had not conceptualized it as a problem with emotional maturity.
