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When family bonding efforts create more stress than connection

Our family keeps planning elaborate vacations to reconnect but we spend the whole time stressed about logistics and arguing about activities and I wonder if we're trying too hard to manufacture togetherness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Forced togetherness often prevents the natural intimacy that arises from shared stillness.

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