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Scenario

When siblings disagree on how to handle a difficult parent

My brother and I are trying to navigate our relationship with our alcoholic father together but we have completely different approaches — I want to maintain boundaries and he wants to keep trying to help — and it's starting to hurt our relationship with each other too.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are letting their different survival strategies from childhood create adult distance instead of understanding.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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Peri

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