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Rules of Estrangement:
What stays in the dark, grows in the dark. If it’s too forbidden to say, it might become too forbidden to understand.
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Rules of Estrangement:
Money likely holds more meanings than almost any material object.
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Rules of Estrangement:
…doing the right thing is often really, really hard when it’s your child.
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Rules of Estrangement:
We can’t protect our offspring from making terrible choices any more than our parents could’ve protected us.
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Rules of Estrangement:
…however objective we try to be in the reckoning of our lives, everyone has their blind spots.
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188 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
So many relationships – especially with family – end because of a misguided notion about the importance of expressing everything you think or feel.
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188 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
Better to be strategic and restrained than vocal. Especially in the fragile arena of parent-adult child relations.
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188 |
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Rules of Estrangement:
Real parenting is a minefield of mistakes. No one gets out without making tons of them.
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Rules of Estrangement:
…you are not ethically obligated to say more than you’d like about your situation to anyone.
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Rules of Estrangement:
…social withdrawal. It’s problematic because you need a community of people to keep you strong and help you feel good about yourself.
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