Our family reunion last month turned into this awful thing where half the relatives were making nasty comments about 'those people' and my teenage kids heard all of it, and now they're asking why we keep going to these gatherings when the adults act like this, and honestly I don't have a good answer but my spouse thinks we should keep trying because 'family is family.'
More people experience this than they realize.
Extended family dynamics have become dominated by toxic attitudes that create genuine harm, forcing difficult choices between family loyalty and protecting one's immediate family from that toxicity.
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