Our family has been avoiding talking about my brother's addiction for months, all of us walking around the elephant in the room and pretending things are normal when they're clearly not. We're all scared and hurting but we keep defaulting to this weird fake harmony instead of learning how to be a family that includes this reality.
More people experience this than they realize.
You're all expending enormous energy maintaining an illusion of normalcy instead of learning to be yourselves within the actual situation.
“Where Are You with Integration — not getting over but getting with?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.