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When family group chats become minefields and illness complicates boundaries

My extended family has a group text where my uncle shares political posts that make half of us furious and the other half defensive, but he's going through cancer treatment so no one wants to ask him to stop. We're all just silently fuming or leaving the chat.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family members are trapped between maintaining connection with a sick relative and protecting their own emotional well-being from harmful content.

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