Tina grew up in a family where there were no secrets. She had to share her bedroom with her two younger sisters, so she didn't get a lot of privacy. Every day when she came home from school her parents wanted to know about everything that happened that day from what she learned in her classes to who she sat with at lunch and even who she had a crush on lately. Even after she went away to college, her parents still called on a daily basis to get the update about her life. What kind of family system does Tina have?

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Tina's family exhibits characteristics of an enmeshed family system, where boundaries between members are blurred, and there is an excessive level of closeness and involvement in each other's lives, leaving little room for privacy.

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