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When family members join intentional communities for the wrong reasons

My mother moved into our cohousing community to be closer to us but now she criticizes everything about how we run things and I feel caught between my family and my chosen community.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mixing biological family with chosen community can create competing loyalties and uncomfortable power dynamics.

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