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When community groups develop unhealthy dynamics

Our neighborhood book club started as a way to build community but it's turned into this thing where certain people dominate every conversation and others have stopped coming and I want to address it but I'm worried about making it worse or seeming controlling.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The democratic ideal of shared space requires someone to name what everyone feels but no one wants to say.

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