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Family Scapegoating Abuse

You Were Never the Problem

There's a reason some people feel like the "problem" in their family.

Rebecca C. Mandeville calls this Family Scapegoating Abuse.

One person is assigned the role of:

  • the difficult one
  • the emotional one
  • the one to blame

Not because it's true.

But because the system needs a pressure valve.

You weren't the problem. You were the pressure valve.