My daughter is home from college and she's learned all these terms and frameworks for understanding oppression and privilege, and she keeps using them to analyze our family dynamics in ways that feel both accurate and devastating. My husband gets defensive and shuts down, I feel caught between wanting to support her growth and protect our family peace, and she's frustrated that we can't engage with ideas that feel life-or-death important to her.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is grappling with new language that names old patterns while threatening the delicate equilibrium everyone has learned to navigate.
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