Our whole family knows my brother is struggling with addiction but we've all developed these elaborate ways of talking around it and enabling it and protecting each other from the truth. We're all exhausted from caring so much and helping so little.
More people experience this than they realize.
Love becomes a form of collective delusion when everyone agrees not to see what's destroying them all.
“Where Are You with Living with loss long-term?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.