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Scenario

Why conditional love hurts more than rejection

I am gay and my religious family loves me but keeps hoping I will change and I am exhausted by their disappointed kindness.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Family acceptance that comes with ongoing hope for fundamental change creates chronic emotional strain and identity invalidation.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian relational self?”

Peri

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