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[quote=Anonymous]My parents used the phrasing of “in our family we don’t” and honestly it was extremely harmful to my siblings and me. The thing is that there is a difference between “as parents we don’t allow” and “as a parent I am speaking on your behalf and dictating your preferences” . As an adult I truly struggled to figure out what I liked and believed in and who I was because my parents were so engulfing and controlling. I was almost never allowed to have a preference which contradicted my parents’. It was like being in a cult. There is no “we don’t do” when the child is unwillingly dragged into your “we”. Did you ask him or are you just bossing him around?[/quote]
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