Not Talking

When you encounter a difficult situation with loved ones, what do you tend to do? Do you tend to expose those issues to the light by bringing attention, focus, and conversation to it? Or do you tend to find solace in silence, not talking about those difficulties? What we do with difficult things can be an intergenerational pattern that we learn from parents, who learned by watching their parents before them, and so on. And when something is an intergenerational pattern, it can be hard to do something that defies what has been cemeneted over generations. If your family chooses silence in the face of challenges, not speech, it probably developed that way for a good reason in the generations past. Yet, do you sometimes find that silence is the problem? What do you do when that happens?

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