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When chosen family bonds are deprioritized for biological family

My best friend and I have been calling ourselves sisters for ten years but she just had a baby and now she says she needs to focus on 'real family' and it's breaking my heart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Life transitions can expose the perceived secondary status of chosen family relationships despite years of primary importance.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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