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When family traditions become sources of tension instead of joy

Our family game nights turned into my dad taking Monopoly too seriously and my mom passive-aggressively cleaning up while we're still playing and nobody knows how to say this isn't fun anymore without hurting feelings.

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Sacred rituals calcify when no one dares to acknowledge they've stopped working.

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