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The movie, “The Godfather” is chalk full of family systems theory. What issue did the Godfather\u00a0NOT suffer from! He seriously was void of a father figure that was accepting, caring, supportive, and nurturing. His mother was unavailable, too passive and\u00a0too co-dependent to address the\u00a0 her husband’s corruption and enormous ego.\u00a0The Godfather’s\u00a0 parents did not model a secure and loving marriage. Marriage was not about being\u00a0real, intimate connections, and belonging.\u00a0The Godfather’s father, the Don, was all about what\u00a0soothed his lost little boy pain. He chose to gain vengeance\u00a0against the man who killed his mother and brother. With so much loss, the head of the family was\u00a0addicted\u00a0to their lost little boys on the inside….addicts to greed, power, women, money, anything that could feed the moment. With the loss of a brother, mother, and loss of love and affection, and security, each man learned to feed their vengeance in\u00a0the moment so they wouldn’t have to be real, and feel who they were becoming. The first\u00a0Don became and identified with the event that changed his life forever; the death of his mother. This family has severe abandonment! Sexual addictions, affairs, pain killing, numbing, is what the first Don modeled for his son, the Godfather.\u00a0He learned from his father, and\u00a0he played out what he learned because that’s who he was naturally, even though in his youth he had every intention to be nothing like his father. There was\u00a0other more powerful model\u00a0than what he was taught by his family, by his brothers, and by his father. What he knew or wished for\u00a0himself wasn’t strong or powerful\u00a0enough for the challenging moments….This is why being in an intimate relationship with others parallels a painful childhood.<\/p>\n
A client of mine recently began to unravel his sexual addiction to pornography.\u00a0He could relate to the\u00a0cycle of self-sabotage, shame, guilt, and\u00a0self-abandonment that has continued in his life.\u00a0He feels\u00a0helpless to change as he watches his wife suffer from emotional disconnect. The Don and the Godfather continued to believe that their lives had no other way to continue other than with\u00a0a heart for vengeance\u00a0based in anger and resentment. If the Godfather and the Don had come to marriage counseling, their lives could\u00a0have been less painful! Please continue reading\u00a0next week for the best Indianapolis Marriage counseling the Godfather\u00a0could have received at\u00a0Family Tree Counseling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The movie, “The Godfather” is chalk full of family systems theory. What issue did the Godfather\u00a0NOT suffer from! He seriously was void of a father figure that was accepting, caring, supportive, and nurturing. His mother was unavailable, too passive and\u00a0too co-dependent to address the\u00a0 her husband’s corruption and enormous ego.\u00a0The Godfather’s\u00a0 parents did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1],"tags":[394,661,399,465,466,468,469,471,472,576,474,396,475,407,408,447,484,436],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marital-therapy","category-uncategorized","tag-abandonment","tag-addictions","tag-affairs","tag-anger","tag-anxiety","tag-co-dependency","tag-communication-issues","tag-couples-counseling","tag-cut-off","tag-depression","tag-disconnect","tag-divorce","tag-emotional-affairs","tag-indianapolis-marriage-counseling","tag-infidelity","tag-marriage-counseling","tag-separation","tag-shame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healingheartsofindy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}