I relate to something almost every episode. Some too personal to mention but just a short list:
Kevin-the kid whose parents think he’s “okay” and focus their attention on the kids who “need” them. Man, let me tell ya, I was that kid. It’s a very lonely existence and having to always be “on” to prove you’re alright is exhausting. You just want someone to take it off your hands so you can just be a kid and don’t have such high expectations to live up to.
Randall-debilitating anxiety, the need to fix things, desperately wanting people to “be okay” to my own detriment.
Kate-Mom issues. Oh yeah, times two moms. Somewhere in my mid thirties I learned to make peace with a lot of it but after a recent conversation with my sister it’s clear I can’t forget. Her weight issues. My sister has been obese her entire life. She recently had weight loss surgery and I just didn’t understand it because she’s lost weight on her own in the past. Then she explained it to me, it’s not about food, not even close.
Jack-parents with addiction issues. DH the same. He also does not speak to his father and I dread the day I get the same kind of call Rebecca did. She’s a better woman than I though. Like Toby I’m “Team DH Foreva” and the amount of pain that man has caused him I won’t be giving him any kind of shot at redemption.
Rebecca-Wrapping your whole life up in your family and forgetting how to be you. Yep, have done that. Never gave anything up for it but I never pursued anything either.
eta: I have literally sat in the car waiting for a parent to come out of a bar more times than I can count. Those scenes were like a gut punch.
I guess I'm just to literal a thinker to be able to identify with situations that are metaphorical. I'm just like that with fiction - books, television, movies. I can find the stories interesting but still not ever "engage" with the pretend people in them. 
to you and all the women who go through that constant fear.
Speaking of scenes that are fried on my brain. 
