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When grandparents' harmful behavior puts parents in impossible positions

My teenage kids and I are supposed to visit my parents for the holidays but my mother has been saying increasingly hurtful things to my daughter about her weight, and my dad just pretends it doesn't happen. I want to protect my kid but I also don't want to blow up the family.

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Three generations are caught in patterns where protecting one person seems to require betraying another, and silence has become complicity.

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