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When setting boundaries with toxic family members feels like betrayal

I cut off my narcissistic mother five years ago and my life got better but my sister says I'm abandoning family and now I doubt everything

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're struggling with whether protecting yourself from harmful family dynamics makes you selfish or whether you have obligations that transcend your wellbeing.

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