Many problems that members bring to the group relate to unfinished situations with significant people in their lives.
Consider the woman who learned to be cautious around men, based largely on her earlier relationship with her father.
She may harbor feelings of resentment and mistrust toward men,
based on her convictions that men will simply not be there for her in time of need.
She may connect this present feeling to old feelings associated with her alcoholic father,
who continually let her down and brought much pain into her life.
Based on her early decision not to trust men,