A relationship dynamic where boundaries between individuals become blurred or non-existent, resulting in loss of individual identity. Family members or partners become so emotionally fused that one person's emotions automatically become everyone's emotions.
From 'enmesh' meaning to catch or trap in a mesh, first used in family therapy in the 1970s by Salvador Minuchin. The concept describes how family members can become so intertwined that individual autonomy is lost, like being caught in an emotional net.
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