Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of enmeshing, or the state of being entangled or entrapped.
- noun Woven work of meshes; network.
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- noun The state of being
enmeshed ;entanglement
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Examples
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The kind of campaigns Rove ran in 2002, 2004 and 2006 ... reduced important debates about priorities in the war, detention and interrogation policies, the wisdom of long-term enmeshment in the Middle East, the difficulties of securing loose nukes, the excruciatingly difficult calls on which allies to trust and how -- into dumb-ass contests about who is the biggest bad-ass, who is a treasonous wimp and which opponent most belongs in a French hair salon.
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+ the fact that the mentoring system fosters enmeshment, which is not autonomy;
Professor Zero 2008
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Hollywood for their decades of financial etc. 'enmeshment' with the most awesomly genocidal regime history has EVER seen ---across the Pacific.
LOL: James Cameron’s Avatar is Disney’s Pochontas | /Film 2010
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First is constriction leading to enmeshment; second is avoidance leading to disengagement and third is impulsive behavior leading to chaos.
Dr. Tian Dayton: The Black Hole: Trauma and Addiction Dr. Tian Dayton 2011
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First is constriction leading to enmeshment; second is avoidance leading to disengagement and third is impulsive behavior leading to chaos.
Dr. Tian Dayton: The Black Hole: Trauma and Addiction Dr. Tian Dayton 2011
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It's easier to have real curiosity without the intensity of enmeshment.
Carol Smaldino: The Bully and the Brain Freeze Carol Smaldino 2011
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Many addicted families cycle back and forth between enmeshment and disengagement, they yearn for closeness but lack the kinds of healthy boundaries that would let them take space, hold different points of view or hang onto a sense of self while in each other's presence and allow others to do the same.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Relationship Dynamics Within the Addicted/Traumatized Family System Dr. Tian Dayton 2010
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It's the package, the sequencing, the strategic enmeshment of big states and smaller ones -- and the absence of national and personal ego that makes this so important.
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One boundary issue is avoiding or limiting enmeshment.
Jan Shepherd: And You Thought Arizona Had Boundary Problems 2010
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Our good friends at Encarta define enmeshment as "to entangle somebody or something in something from which it is difficult to be extricated or separated."
Jan Shepherd: And You Thought Arizona Had Boundary Problems 2010
vermontster commented on the word enmeshment
Watch out - this terms gets used in an easy, slippery way that pathologizes the heck out of close relationships.
June 29, 2008