Use transactional analysis and adult/parent/child to figure out yourself, your spouse, your family, your in-laws, etc. (Honestly.)

Been going to therapy recently -- because, I mean, why not? -- and my therapist gave me two books to read/look at. One was called The Games People Play; it's by Eric Berne and is fairly famous. (By some estimates, it sold over five million copies.) The other one is called I'm OK, You're OK; it's by Thomas Harris and also somewhat popular. I've now read …