Our family never talks about my uncle's addiction even though it affects every holiday and gathering, and now my teenage kids are starting to ask questions about why he acts the way he does. We all enable the silence because we love him but I'm realizing that protecting him might be hurting our kids' ability to understand what's happening.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family system is maintaining harmful secrets in the name of love, creating confusion across generations.
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