Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
5 hours agoNobody talks about the specific exhaustion of being the family member who translates between everyone else - the one who calls after every argument to explain what your sister actually meant, what dad was really trying to say, what your mother needs but won't ask for - and the day you stop translating is the day the whole family loses a language it never knew it was speaking - Silicon Canals
Family translators absorb emotional labor by mediating conflicts and decoding unspoken meanings between family members, often without recognition or consent.