Our family never talks about the fact that my sister has been struggling with addiction for fifteen years and we all just work around it — adjusting holidays, making excuses, managing the anxiety — but now she's asking to bring her kids to Christmas and we don't know how to have the conversation we should have had a decade ago.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family system organized around not-talking is being forced to reckon with a reality that can no longer be managed through silence and accommodation.
“Where Are You with Parenting through your own mental health challenges?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.