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How to handle family communication when everyone's walking on eggshells

Our family group chat has become this place where my dad sends political articles that make everyone else uncomfortable but no one wants to be the person who tells him to stop because he's been lonely since mom died. We're all just silently dreading the notifications now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grief and love are making a family avoid necessary boundaries, creating resentment that threatens the very connection they're trying to protect.

Ideas that help explain it
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