My adult kids and I have never talked about my divorce from their father ten years ago and now that they're having relationship struggles of their own, I can see them wrestling with things I could help with but the subject feels too loaded. We all just pretend that huge rupture in our family never happened, but it shaped everything that came after.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family has organized itself around a silence that prevents them from accessing hard-won wisdom and deeper intimacy across generations.
“Where Are You with Legacy and ego — when legacy-building becomes narcissism?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.