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When family members want deeper connection but don't know how to be vulnerable

My father and I have been carrying forward a family tradition of emotional distance and surface-level conversations, and with him getting older I realize we're running out of time to create something real between us, but neither of us knows how to drop the protective walls we've both learned to hide behind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trapped in inherited patterns of emotional protection that prevent the intimacy they both long for.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined question — what do I want to leave??”

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