Our family group chat has become this weird performance where everyone pretends everything is fine even though Mom's drinking has gotten obviously worse since Dad retired and we're all dancing around it in different ways. Some of us want to intervene and others think we should stay out of it and the silence is becoming its own problem.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is fragmenting under the weight of a shared truth no one knows how to speak.
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