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When Your Relationship Choices Feel Like Self-Destruction to Family

My Iranian mother cries every time she sees my tattoos because she says I'm destroying myself for my American boyfriend who will leave me anyway.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love becomes mourning when those who raised you see your joy as your destruction.

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