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When healthy families highlight everything yours lacked

My husband's family is warm and functional and being around them makes me realize how broken mine was but also makes me feel like an alien who doesn't belong

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're experiencing both grief for what you missed and inadequacy about your ability to belong in functional family systems.

Ideas that help explain it
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