The Daughters Who Become Emotional Air Traffic Controllers (opens in new tab)

One of the most socially rewarded forms of emotional damage is female over-accommodation. The culture rarely calls it trauma. It calls it: * maturity, * emotional intelligence, * being “easygoing,” * being “low drama,” * being “the stable one.” Meanwhile therapists often look at the same woman and think: This person has been managing the emotional atmosphere since childhood. A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology examined how daughters who perceive their mothers as narcissistic may ...