Family triangulation in a furnace repair

The Human Diagnostic · May 30, 2026 · 17m

Format: Post-call Runtime: ~8 minutes Source: Psychology , filial piety and role reversal (Boszormenyi-Nagy; relational ethics); triangulated communication in family systems Sometimes you walk into a call and realize there are two conversations happening at once and you're somehow in the middle of both of them. She was in her late eighties. Her daughter had made the appointment. The daughter met me at the door , she'd driven over from her house across town to be there, which she'd mentioned when she called, and which I'd understood to mean she wanted to make sure the job was handled…