Internal Family Systems (IFS) work can help individuals connect with exiled parts of themselves, unburden them, and resolve repetition compulsions.

“and so when we're working with couples and you always find some version of that in couples we can get each of them to become their own good attachment figure good caretaker inside that frees up the partner because when this Exile is leading the relationship your partner feels a lot of um sort of Demands or feels a lot like your partner has to take care of that young part of you and can't can't fully do it so there's always this this uh sense of oh a burden you know what I'm saying yeah yeah”