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When keeping family secrets becomes its own burden

I have been covering for my alcoholic sister at family gatherings for years and I am tired of protecting everyone else from the truth.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Protective silence can become complicity that enables the very harm it seeks to prevent.

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