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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was recently reading something about how family estrangement has been rising. I notice it in my personal life too with a lot of people I know not seeing their families for the holidays. What do you think is driving this increase?[/quote]

Social media has made it trendy, unfortunately. I know a lot of people have genuine trauma in their lives, but there has been explosion of influencers treating estrangement as some sort of celebratory thing. I get that people who are genuinely liberated probably have good reason to breathe easy, but the depiction of it as some sort of "cool thing to do" is also giving impressionable people this idea that families are disposable and that difficult familial relationships aren't worth the effort to save.

I saw a lot of this on Oprah's special, this sort of "I dare you to challenge me" chip on the shoulder who proclaimed themselves happily estranged. Social media, especially the Tik Tok, is not giving a nuanced picture of what estrangement looks like and downplays the pain that hast to lurk, even in the hearts of people who proclaim themselves happy. For some, I'm sure the relief is genuine. But I think for many, there's a state of denial and we're seeing a lot of carefully constructed fronts.[/quote]

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