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When family pleasure traditions become performative rather than genuine

Our family vacation traditions have become these elaborate productions focused on the perfect experience rather than actual enjoyment, and we're all stressed but no one wants to admit it's not fun anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A group has turned shared pleasure into shared performance, losing the very thing they were trying to preserve.

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“Where Are You with Pleasure and its examined life?”

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