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When adult families avoid addressing a parent's addiction

Our family group chat has become this weird place where we all perform being fine while my dad's drinking gets worse and nobody wants to be the one to bring it up. We're all adults now but we still fall into these old patterns of protecting each other from the truth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shared family secret is being maintained through collective silence, preventing the very connections that could address the underlying crisis.

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