Fellow Gen X and millennials, let's talk about our parents and their need for dishonest harmony.
What that's showing is their lack of ability to handle the distress that they feel when we talk openly about uncomfortable things... What they want is dishonest harmony rather than honest conflict.
Keep quiet about these hard issues. Suppress your pain, suppress your trauma. Definitely don't talk openly about it so that you can learn to heal and break the cycle.
What matters most is that we have the appearance of harmony, even if there's nothing harmonious.
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