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When family members bond over shared trauma but can't move beyond it

My mom and I both went through divorces in the last year and we've been leaning on each other a lot, but I'm starting to realize we might be keeping each other stuck in anger and hurt instead of helping each other heal. Our conversations always turn into venting sessions about our exes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Mutual support can become mutual reinforcement of wounds when healing requires moving through pain rather than around it.

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