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When your chosen family disapproves of your romantic partner

I've been part of this queer friend group for eight years and we do everything together but now I'm getting married to someone they don't really like and I can feel them pulling away.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Romantic choices can create fault lines that threaten the stability of chosen family bonds.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with LGBTQ+ chosen family tradition?”

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