The Problem With Cutting Off Your Family Members

But in our efforts to comfort those whose relationships with their families have been difficult, we may be too quick to advise a separation, and we may overlook something of essential value in an unchosen family. Therapeutic language like “setting boundaries” can be clarifying, but it can have the effect of limiting our personal growth, excusing us from reasonable obligations, and causing us to abandon relationships that could be nurtured, healed and redeemed.