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When support groups become unbalanced

Our small group at church used to be a source of deep connection but over the past year it's become dominated by one person's personal crises and the rest of us don't know how to address it without seeming uncaring.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group designed for mutual support is struggling with how to maintain healthy boundaries when one member consistently requires more emotional energy than others.

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