Our family group chat has become the main way we stay connected but it's also where all our conflicts play out and nobody knows how to have a private conversation anymore because everything becomes a group discussion. We're more informed about each other's lives but less intimate and I don't know how to suggest we need other ways of connecting without seeming like I want less family involvement.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family has collapsed all their varied relationship dynamics into a single digital channel, losing the nuanced intimacy that comes from different types of connection with different people.
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