Use the Smith slap as a concrete anchor to discuss how enmeshment with a partner's emotional world destroys autonomy. The clip traces the trajectory: his life attached to her emotional needs, her outbursts becoming his outbursts, her bullying him publicly. It's a cautionary tale about losing selfhood inside a relationship rather than maintaining separate centers of gravity.
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