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When family therapy creates performance rather than authenticity

My adult son and I are both in therapy working on family stuff and we've started having these really deep conversations but sometimes I feel like we're both performing insight instead of just being honest about how hard this relationship has been for both of us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The language of healing can become another way to avoid the raw truth of how people have hurt each other, replacing genuine reckoning with sophisticated emotional theater.

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