RULE TO BREAK
“You can choose your friends but you can’t choose your family”
Surely this one is inarguably true? Well, unfortunately it’s one of those throwaway lines that can be really damaging and leave you short-changed in life. Of course you can’t choose your family in the literal sense. But in the majority of cases you can choose to make them your friends. Even though it can take some effort, it’s well worth it. Any psychologist will tell you that siblings grow up in competition with each other. In particular, they compete for their parents’ attention. And they work hard to make themselves different, so that they’ll attract individual notice. It’s a deep evolutionary drive that we’re unaware of, especially as children.
In some families ...
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