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{weblog_name} - Healing Family Relationships
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“You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family,” goes the old saying.  As the New Year begins, many of us are acutely aware that our family relationships are not all we wish they could be.  Maybe you’re disappointed because someone has failed to call or send a card.  Maybe you’re angry because you weren’t invited to a simcha.  Perhaps old rivalries have surfaced with siblings as your aging parents’ needs have changed.  So now you’re shouting at each other, or worse, not talking at all.  And it hurts.  How do we get into these stalemates?  We have expectations that others fail to meet.  We feel wrongly accused, or we need to blame someone.  “He blew it out of proportion.”  “She should have known how I felt.”  One thing is certain (and we know this in the… read more