Healing Relational Enmeshment: When Your Identity Is Lost

Enmeshment can lead to resentment, dissatisfaction, and eventual breakup.

Photograph by Bakr Magrabi on Pexels

Relational enmeshment is the phenomena that occurs when our identity becomes too-intertwined with our significant other. Further, it’s where the “reigns” of our emotional stability is handed over to someone else who may now have control — consciously, or not — over how good or bad we feel.

It’s what occurs when instabi…