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When setting healthy boundaries makes you the family outsider

My brother struggles with addiction and my parents enable him and I have set boundaries but now family gatherings are tense and I feel like the bad guy for protecting myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-preservation sometimes requires stepping outside dysfunctional family systems that punish health.

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“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

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