In many families, chaos does not arise at the death of a parent, but years earlier, when children become too involved in the parent’s decisions. From a systemic perspective, a split arises: the child is already addressed as a successor while the parent is still alive. This puts pressure on the natural order and often forms the breeding ground for later conflicts around care, legacy, and inheritance.
An Inheritance Is Not Repair: Why a Child Has Systemically Nothing to Claim
Inheritances often evoke deep emotions. Injustice. Comparison. Old pain. Especially when parents were emotionally unavailable or caused harm, money can feel like compensation. Systemic work, however, says something fundamentally different. An inheritance cannot repair a lack. And it is not meant to. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Inheritances seem to be about money, but systemically […]