Elvin and Sandy have been married for ten years and have three children. Any time Sandy needs to make a decision about the family, she asks her mother what she should do. Elvin gets frustrated because he doesn't think his mother-in-law knows what's best for the family in every case, but Sandy always does what her mother says, no matter what. Sandy and her mother are:

  a.  chaotic.
  b.  disengaged.
  c.  enmeshed.
  d.  rigid.


  c.  enmeshed.

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