Lyla Connolly | Associate Therapist on Instagram: "When you date someone, you are not just dating their adult selves - you are also interacting with their "protective parts" and young survival strategies 👇🏽 Protective parts are essentially ways that we learned to keep our most vulnerable selves safe in childhood (aka young survival strategies). And while they are usually adaptive in our families of origin, they can keep us stuck in our adult selves and relationships. ‼️For eldest daughters wit