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When families avoid talking about addiction together

Our family group chat has become this weird performance where we all pretend everything is fine even though Dad's drinking has gotten worse and we're all walking on eggshells whenever we're together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is choosing the comfort of collective denial over the discomfort of collective truth-telling.

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