enmeshment

a mother-daughter love story

I was in my early teens when I first heard the clinical term “enmeshment” -- not from a psychotherapist, but my best friend at school who, like me, was a precocious child of divorce. 

This was in Toronto in the 90s – a city once accurately described as “New York run by the Swiss.”  My friend and I were classmates at a selective state-funded secondary sch…