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How family money dynamics sabotage financial boundaries

I keep lending money to my brother knowing he will not pay me back because saying no feels like admitting our family is falling apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Financial decisions become proxies for relationship health, making rational economic choices feel like emotional betrayals.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Behavioral economics — biases in financial decisions?”

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