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When family traditions become obligations that no longer serve anyone

Our family holiday traditions have gotten completely overwhelming — three different celebrations because of divorces and remarriages — and everyone's exhausted but no one wants to be the one to suggest changing things that other people might care about. We're all performing joy instead of actually feeling it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is discovering that preserving the form of connection can sometimes prevent the substance of it.

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