Our extended family has been planning this big reunion and my cousin and I keep getting into it about whether belonging to this family means celebrating our shared history or reckoning with the painful parts of it that some relatives want to ignore. We both love this family but we have completely different ideas about what loyalty and belonging require when there's real harm in the past.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two relatives are struggling with whether true belonging requires confronting difficult truths or protecting cherished bonds from painful examination.
“Where Are You with What belonging is — a philosophical definition?”
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