Emotional Incest
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When someone gets emotional support, intimacy, or involvement from a child (young or adult) that should be provided by another adult. Emotional incest usually results when the adult perpetrator is unwilling to make the effort to maintain a responsible relationship with an adult. Lacing Emotional Intelligence and any sense of altruism they groom a child for the role of a replacement partner.
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