Читать книгу Money Mammoth - Ted Klontz - Страница 32

But not all financial help is good. There are many circumstances in which financial help, or the promise of financial help, can hurt. For example, there are times when financial support enables a pattern of irresponsible financial behaviors, encouraging bad spending habits, a lack of saving, a lack of motivation, or other self-destructive behaviors. In our research, we refer to this as financial enabling and financial dependence, which is discussed in detail in Chapter 3.

Sometimes money is used within family systems to hurt or control. Sometimes the power money can have to create a connection in the lives of those close to us becomes so important that we use money to enable those feelings. This can lead to a pattern of financial enmeshment.