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Society hammers us all into emotional codependence from Day One
Please the parents, church, school, teachers, marketers, peers ......... we are less important than TV commercials. That's where these soul-less, weak, manipulated cretins begin and reside. I can imagine this is worse today than 40 years ago, and it was bad back then.