parentification does not have the same power dynamics as parent/child
parentification does not have the same power dynamics as parent/child
There isn’t a simple reading of the brothers’ situation, and the parent/child dynamics are just one part of this tangled web. Dean’s made decisions for Sam all season (and in earlier seasons), often assuming by forced circumstance or by choice a degree of authority that he…
A Clean Break (9.13 Coda)
Sam remembered one time, years ago, in some middle-of-nowhere dingy motel. He was eight or nine, maybe. Dad was gone, hunting. He’d only said he had a lead. Sam was pretty sure now that it must have been Azazel. Nothing less would have kept him away for three whole months.
There was a tree outside the hotel. Dad never let Sam climb trees, but Dad wasn’t there, and Dean was busy swiping food from the local gas station. He came back to Sam huddled and crying in the mud at the foot of the tree.
His arm was broken. He’d never seen Dean so scared. They didn’t have insurance, and the money dad had given them was quickly running out. So Dean wrapped Sam’s arm in ace bandages from the gas station and they left it alone, the way other boys hid broken vases from their mothers.
