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When Setting Boundaries With One Parent Affects the Other

I want to cut contact with my toxic mother but I know it will devastate my father who doesn't understand why I can't just forgive and forget.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The need for self-preservation conflicts with loyalty to the parent who enabled or ignored the harmful behavior.

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