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When family traditions become burdens

My extended family has Sunday dinners every week and it's been a tradition for decades, but lately it feels obligation more than joy and some of us are starting to dread it while others would be devastated if we stopped. No one wants to be the one to break something that means so much to the older generation.

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The delicate ecology of family rituals, where love and duty intertwine until no one can tell the difference.

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