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dianthus
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27 May 2016, 1:39 pm

Does your family act like a clique? Like snubbing or excluding certain people, or setting each other up to compete for inclusion?



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27 May 2016, 1:58 pm

Families do have that tendency, I have found.



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27 May 2016, 2:06 pm

In my family of origin there was always enormous amounts of enmeshment plus the constant shifting of alliances. My role for a while was to try to facilitate some sort of unity or cooperation. Didn't go too good, b/c that wasn't what they needed emotionally due to some dysfunction. Once I moved out and spent some time away and got married, it became much easier to resist. Now I just sit back and let it play out without jumping in far enough to get swept up.


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12 Jun 2016, 4:44 pm

Yes, because some family members think of themselves as better than everyone else around them.


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