My teenage daughter and I used to be close, but since her dad and I divorced last year we've been walking on eggshells around each other — she's protecting me from her anger about the divorce and I'm protecting her from my guilt — and our relationship has become so careful it doesn't feel real anymore.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who love each other are choosing distance over honesty because they think protection looks like silence, but their care is creating disconnection.
“Where Are You with Post-traumatic growth — what can grow in the soil of loss?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.