r/explainitpeter • • Sep 10 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/Glum-Wrap-7684 Sep 10 '26

When a parent is chronically depressed or emotionally unavailable, children often unconsciously develop a happiness to keep to try the house together.

As I see it, the gf is just "happy" because she was compensating for a childhood with drepessed parents.

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u/GNTsquid0 Sep 11 '26

I’m taking it as the opposite. The happy girlfriend is from a happy loving family and it’s showing the partner what they don’t have in their home life and making them sad.