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How to handle family disappointment about vacation reactions

My family thinks I'm ungrateful because I didn't enjoy our expensive Disney trip but being surrounded by manufactured happiness made me feel more empty than before.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Prescribed joy has collided with authentic emotional experience, creating guilt around the failure to perform expected gratitude.

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