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11 hours agoMy grandmother cleaned when she was angry and the house was always spotless and nobody ever connected those two facts-and the day I caught myself scrubbing the kitchen floor after an argument with my husband I heard her in my knees and understood that I'd inherited a coping mechanism that looks like a virtue but is actually a fist - Silicon Canals
Unprocessed emotions and coping mechanisms pass through generations as inherited patterns, often disguised as positive traits like industriousness or perfectionism.