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When minimizing trauma protects abusers

I cannot accept that my childhood was traumatic because my parents did their best and other people had it worse

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Loyalty to family narrative prevents integration of painful reality and maintains idealization that blocks healing.

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