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When loving someone means setting boundaries with everyone else

My brother has addiction issues and my parents keep enabling him and I feel like I have to choose between protecting my own family and staying connected to theirs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between loyalty and self-preservation forces impossible choices about which relationships we can afford to maintain.

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