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You’ve got your own place, your own job, your own life. You handle hard things all week. Then you spend two hours around your parents and suddenly you’re snappy, shut down, or counting the minutes until you can leave. If that sounds familiar, nothing is wrong with you. What’s actually happening When a parent was emotionally unavailable, you learned early on how to cope with it. Maybe you got quiet, got good, got funny, or got angry. Your nervous system filed those strategies