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#27 The Only Child – Mature, Independent… and Maybe a Little Emotionally Overloaded
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Were you the only child who was “so mature for your age”—but never really got to be a kid? In this episode, we dive into what it’s really like growing up without siblings and how that shapes your identity, relationships, and emotional habits as an adult.
Drawing from birth order psychology and Family Systems Theory, we explore how only children miss the sibling subsystem—your first environment for social learning—and what happens when you become the emotional container for your entire family. From hyper-independence to emotional overload, this one’s for every adult who grew up as a one-person support team.
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Chapters
1. Only Children Are Different (00:00:00)
2. Family Systems Theory Explained (00:04:30)
3. The Missing Sibling Subsystem (00:07:06)
4. Growing Up Watched, Not With (00:12:18)
5. Adult Patterns of Only Children (00:14:21)
6. Healing from the Only Child Script (00:17:48)
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